PEOPLE 
This is the London "they" don't want you to see — with "they" being the mayor, the politicians, the
tourist boards, and the Olympics 2012 bid team — for photographer Paul Talling captures the city in
its warts-and-all glory. For Talling, "derelict" doesn't just mean "dead" — although there are plenty of
engrossing shots of abandoned cemeteries, lost tube stations, and disused theatres. He finds a special
kind of beauty in the half-empty bingo hall, the rundown boozers, and the lovable freaks and weirdos
who populate our streets. What the powers-that-be don't get is that London isn't some chocolate-box
theme park; it's a loved-in, lived-in city, fat and bloated, and a bit rough round the edges. But that's
what Talling so expertly captures, that we just wouldn't have it any other way.
FLAVOURPILL
There's no such thing as a derelict person of course....
Seven Sisters Road,N4 Finsbury Park,N4
Blackfriars (photo courtesy of Claudia Elliott)
Anybody got any info on this guy seen here with his worldly belongings on a cart made out of 2 bicycles?
The Astoria,W1 Plaistow
Brick Lane The Astoria, W1
Camden Firkin, NW1 Red Eye, Copenhagen St. N1
Catch 22 ,Shoreditch
Notting Hill Arts Centre
Shepherds Bush Green
Victoria Embankment Gardens
George Orwell roughed it with tramps in his researches for 'Down and Out in Paris And London'. - He actually slept out at these gardens beside the Thames and offers this advice: 'get your bench early and
stuff your clothes with newspaper'.
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Lambeth SE1
Whitechapel
Strand
Trafalgar Square Strand
Waterloo
Soho - Jimmy Pursey ex Sham 69
A London legend seen here in Soho Club (PUNK) in March 08 doing guest vocals at a Last Army gig
Aldershot Town fans away at Ford United FC,Barkingside.
