Tired
of London?
Street
Life in London 1876. Photos
by John Thomson, courtesy of Spitalfields Life, via The Retronaut
I’m
not sure why I am so preoccupied with Spitalfields but I suspect it stands in
for the places I know better and have seen transformed, not always for the
better, and that didn’t have a gentle author to chronicle their passing and
their survival.
The
photos of John Claridge, all via Spitalfields Life, one of my favourite
websites.
Geoffrey
Fletcher’s sketches of ‘Pavement
Pounders’, via Spitalfields Life.
The
Doors of Spitalfields via Spitalfields Life. The noble art of faking wood
grain.
East
End Shop Fronts of 1988 by Alan Dein, via Spitalfields Life
East
End Shop Fronts Revisited by Alan Dein, via Spitalfields Life
Spitalfields
by Philip Marriage, via Spitalfields Life
Central London,
1961 by Charles Cushman, via The Retronaut
Other
cities
Skateboarding
in New York, 1960s I don’t remember seeing skateboarding in the UK until maybe
the early 1980s so these 1960s shots are intriguing. The size and thickness of
the skateboards themselves is a far cry from what is used now.
Manhattan
1921. Manhatta: a stunning short film by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGAt0ic52gc
Future
cities
Ruin by Oddball Animation, viaKuriositas
City
in the Sky, via Kuriositas
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