Links to some other websites

London pools campaign
fighting to keep Londoners' swimming-pools. An organisation set up the threatened and closed London
 swimming pools to highlight the plight of swimming in the capital, particularly in the light of the
government’s very recent commitment to combat Britain’s couch potato culture.

.co.uk
 Champions the faded, yet somehow still vivid, attractions of the authentic greasy spoon, documenting
 an institution perilously close to vanishing altogether... "This brutal Starbucking of the high street
 is leading to the wholesale erasure of British vernacular retail architecture."


 - interactive collection of texts, interviews, video and art pieces that will
attempt to kick-start a debate about the different kinds of value 'derelict' buildings can have in our lives.

spitalfields society  - to help the preservation, improvement and appreciation of this historic,
multicultural and vibrant corner of London


Not so much a major player as a desperate last stand to save London.
A small frightened rabbit frozen in the face of the Bulldozers headlamps. The chewing gum on the architect's heel..........

the official website of London'sPearly GuilD


Comprehensive photographic site of London


celebrate and inform about the heritage and use of the River Thames

 largest, oldest and most technically expert national pressure group fighting to save old buildings from decay, demolition and damage.

www.urbanography.co.uk
Symbolizing an area of urban photographic interest.

www.beckenhamhistory.com  what it says on tin....

Waterways of East London       Interesting small photo site

www.londontransportoriginalsigns.co.uk     Loads of original old LT bus and tube signs,etc at decent prices

campaign to save a Open Air Swimming Pool in Ipswich


flavourpill  is a free, weekly email covering arts, music, and cultural events in London.

london-footprints.co.uk
Comprehensive walks of London. Very informative & useful resource.

www.birminghamanchor.co.uk
100ft below Birmingham city centre is a secret telephone exchange called ANCHOR -
 Opened in 1957 built to withstand a nuclear attack

Terence Nunn's Attic  www.tnunn.co.uk -Pictures of vanishing London from the 1960's
onwards.

www.forgotten-ny.com  derelict New York

Historic Medway  interesting site about the history & character of this part of Kent


www.abandonedpast.co.uk - urban exploration site

http://www.sci-eng.mmu.ac.uk/industrial_ruins/ - Industrial Ruins in the UK by Dr Tim Edensor of
Manchester Metropolitan University

www.pillboxesuk.co.uk   Lots of pillboxes from around the UK

Ghost Signs UK  http://brickads.blogspot.com
News and views on fading painted advertisements of the past, Brickads or 'Ghost Signs'.

Exploring a derelict Cumbria

www.unfinishedbuildings.org   a site dealing with unfinished buildings









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