Links tagged with “london”
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Russell Bell | Portfolio - Barbican before the Blitz
I’ve a feeling I’ve seen this before, but apparently didn’t link to it. Lovely and interesting. (via Things Magazine)
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London Cafes in The 1980s - Flashbak
Lots of nice photos by Peter Marshall. (via FaveJet)
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Model Barbican : r/london
“It’s not on display per se but if you go to the Barbican and ask to see the model room they’ll let you.” !!
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Barbican centre construction 1970s | Flickr
91 colour photos! Beech street before it was covered! Cut-away below-podium views! Gardens without plants! Views across London from the towers! Donkey jackets! Brilliant.
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Home | Layers of London | Recording the Layers of London’s Rich Heritage
I think this is a good collection of old maps layered on a modern one although I was slightly baffled when trying it on an iPad. (via Things Magazine)
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@lemonodor/Advisory Circular bots / Twitter
Twitter bots that automatically post when a helicopter’s detected flying in circles over a particular city. Includes @SkyCirclesLON. (via Ask MetaFilter)
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Paul Catherall
Very simple, colourful prints of buildings and city views.
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Scaled Industries
Detailed 3D printed squares of cities for sale. Very nice.
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Energy Flash: rave before rave
Scroll down for the/a origin of raves at George Melly and Mick Mulligan’s West End Jazz Club.
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Intaglio Printmaker | Intaglioprintmaker
Online shop for tools and materials, based in SE1.
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diamond geezer - Monday, November 16, 2020
The Shepherdess Cafe is now the Shepherdess BBQ Cafe.
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Andrew O’Hagan · Seventy Years in a Colourful Trade: The Soho Alphabet · LRB 16 July 2020
I enjoyed this portrait of a Soho despite, or because of, being unfamiliar with that world.
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CamJam
Flips rapidly through 900 Transport for London traffic cameras showing almost-live footage. Quite hypnotic.
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Horses and Ale – the end of two eras – Symbols & Secrets
I knew there used to be stables up Whitecross Street but hadn’t realised it was in the (apparently recently closed) Travis Perkins .
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How London’s Silicon Roundabout dream turned into a nightmare | WIRED UK
One of the suggested tags for this article as I add it to Pinboard is “corruption”.
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Places | Eleanor Crow Illustration
I love the watercolour shop fronts. (via @undermanager)
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The Barbican Estate: An Architectural Masterpiece Under Threat
The “A History of Continual Expansion” document is fascinating, to see how the school has incrementally expanded over decades.
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The story of London’s tech scene, as told by those who built it | WIRED UK
Or, a spotty history of some mostly venture-funded big digital businesses from only the past decade.
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The Best Value Restaurants in London
So very varied. I’ve only been to one (Paul Rothe) which is probably the most traditionally English of the lot. (via FaveJet)
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The Barbican - ProBE - University of Westminster, London
Download the case study PDFs for some great stuff about building the Barbican, M1, Sizewell, South Bank, and Stevenage. Includes labour conditions, disputes, interviews with workers etc.
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Is London’s culture unaffordable? | Financial Times
Mainly for the phrase, “the impressive-sounding Royal College of Art, which is impressive-sounding in much the same way as Royal Mail”. (via Favejet)
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Walkways in the sky: the return of London’s forgotten ‘pedways’ | Cities | The Guardian
Oliver Wainwright on the City of London’s highwalks. Some nice old photos.
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Berners Street hoax - Wikipedia
What larks. (via Things Magazine)
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How to work with Londoners: a guide for foreigners.
Alex’s good matter-of-fact guide to the practical realities of getting started with making contacts and generating work.
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The Great Diary Project
Archiving personal diaries. (via Things mag)
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Understanding Uber: It’s Not About The App - London Reconnections
Very good on TfL and Uber. If only newspaper reporting was anything like this good.
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Paul Regan - Artist
I love my friend Paul’s paintings of mundane urban/suburban scenes at night.
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Nighttime
Nice illustrations, sold as prints, of some mostly London buildings.
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Blackhorse Lane Ateliers | Selvedge & Raw Denim Jeans | Made In London
Jeans (and more) made in London, plus workshops to make your own. (via Die Workwear)
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The Exquisitely English (and Amazingly Lucrative) World of London Clerks - Bloomberg
A good insight into a world I knew nothing about. Now I know who those people are pushing carts of boxes of papers, who I see on the way to work. (via @iamdanw)
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The Last London - London Review of Books
I usually find Iain Sinclair a bit much, too grouchy, but the start of this is very good on modern London, around Shoreditch, Spitalfields and Liverpool Street.
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continuum | Flickr
Although I love Chris Dorley-Brown’s photos, I hadn’t seen this series he’d done before. Photos, both by him, of the same London locations years, or decades, apart. Nicely done.
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Interview with Chris Dorley-Brown | The Great Leap Sideways
Lots of interesting things about his great photography, and about London, in this 2012(?) interview. “London is really still cleaning up after a war that ended in 1945.”
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U.K. Cinemas : London
Seating capacities of different screens. (via antimega)
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The Agas Map
Really nicely done zoomable, clickable, searchable perspective map of London from the 16th century. Very good.
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Lost & Found in Borough — Medium
Ugh, the things people just throw out. Loads of 19th century plans, documents, etc thrown out by an estate agent on Borough High Street.
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39 ways to save on theatre tickets - London Undiscovered
Surprisingly, a not terrible list, with some things I didn’t know about.
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Salary benchmarking for London - Cogs Agency Cogs Agency
2015/16. Interesting, although I take these with a pinch of salt. And all the tables are an image, so they obviously want to keep this data hidden from some people.
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chris dorley-brown
Some lovely photos of mostly east London. Good colours and more. (via The Online Photographer)
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Home - London’s Silent Cinemas
“It documents the early lives of over 700 cinemas across London and its suburbs” from 1906 to around 1930. The map’s really good.
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Search Films - London Cinema
A nice site for finding what films are on near a location. (via @jobby)
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Bespoke Plywood Furniture
“Designed and manufactured in London.”
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High Paddington - Sergei Kadleigh, 1952 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
A brochure about a plan to house 8,000 people in 30-storey towers over Paddington Goods Yard in London.
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NFL’s British accent - SBNation.com
On British fans of NFL football (as opposed to fans of British American football), and why they’re not bothered about getting a London NFL franchise.
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Pubwatch: The Gladstone Arms | Deserter
Nice, sad, angry piece about London’s continued development, at any price. (via The Londonist)
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Design Jobs / It’s Nice That Jobsboard
I imagine this has jobs at some nice places (and the usual), given it’s from It’s Nice That. And I’ll forget the name if I don’t bookmark it. (via @iamdanw)
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Bike Shop in East London | Isambard’s Vintage Bicycles
On Bethnal Green Road, they restore and rebuild old bikes with new components.
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The Steeple Times – Crashing Assange
From 2011, about people who repeatedly blag their way into posh parties and receptions. A little bizarre. Also read Victoria Coren’s articles, linked at the bottom. And a Tumblr of photos in the comments.