Buildings in London that are gone now
Change is good, generally. It keeps us from stagnating. The challenge of new ideas and new ways of doing things is good for our brains and drives adaptation and innovation. It underpins our evolutionary development.
In London, despite many years of imposed austerity and economic and social decline for the general population, property developers continue to be busy, avariciously gambling on unsustainable future growth that fails to account for the exigencies of the pivotal era we live in, by which I mean, the Climate Emergency in particular, but also, the social policies that are disenfranchising the working population, the rise of nationalism and so on.
Chewing through a building (video 0:44)
Walking down Old Street on my way to work one morning, I happened to catch a glimpse of this impressive machine taking down a building.
A photo of Old Beirut
This is a photograph I came across in Meza, a Lebanese Restaurant in Tooting, London. The photographer and the date of the photograph is unknown.
Button (video 1:18)
A video I made ten years ago; Button. I took the shots in Smithfield Market, London’s ancient and famous wholesale meat market, which was incredibly noisy.
Paddington Station then and now
I took a photograph in Paddington Station a few days before coming across one taken from almost the same spot 35 years earlier, in 1982.
Colindale Underground Station
Colindale is a London Underground station in Colindale, a suburb of north London. The station is on the north-south Edgware branch of the Northern line, between Burnt Oak and Hendon Central stations.
Explosion in Colindale
It seems it was a tar boiler, which explains all the black smoke. Here is an entry about the incident on the London Fire Brigade website:
My Strand Underpass photo on Wikipedia
This is a brief entry merely to note that a photo I took 7 years ago is now being used to illustrate the Wikipedia entry on Strand Underpass.
Dashcam video: Rotherhithe Tunnel (video 01:30)
This is a dashcam video of driving under the River Thames in London from south to north, via the Rotherhithe Tunnel.
Steve Jobs spotted outside a cafe in south-west London (lookalike)
Getting on the number 57 bus at Tooting Broadway, I went upstairs to find a seat on the top deck. As I sat down and looked out of the window, I did a double-take because of how closely this person resembled Steve Jobs.
Strand Underpass
Here are four photographs taken inside the Strand Underpass in London. Something about this road tunnel just makes me want to take pictures.
Collision on Mitcham Lane, Streatham
On Friday 27 July, coming home from work, I came across a quite serious collision that closed Mitcham Lane in Streatham, south-west London.