Misc

again.... not everything here is derelict!!!

"The seedy underbelly of one of the world's most regal and outwardly pristine cities is exposed to all in this

poignant depiction of London's decidedly unseemly parts. Londoner Paul Talling has created a record of

his many walkabouts and fashioned a rare portrait of the posh city that cannot be seen via public transport

or guided tour. By foregoing the usual palatial pomp and circumstance and heading straight for the gutter

shot, a grittier and more vivid (dare we say more interesting?) London emerges. Her abandoned cinemas

and forgotten hospitals loom with quiet majesty, while her shoddy domiciles, unkempt corners, and pubs

gone bust reveal an aging grand dame's "liver spots." Yet, even at her worst, London retains a hint of the

glory we're more accustomed to seeing"

YAHOO! PICKS

Hoxton

Ancient streetlamp holder

Grays

Shopping trolleys on the Thames

Elephant & Castle

Teddy discarded on pavement after "drive by" shooting incident

Hornsey

Shoes hanging from overhead telephone wires

A number of sinister explanations have been proposed as to why this is done. Some say that

shoes hanging from the wires advertise a local crack house where crack cocaine is used and

sold It can also relate to a place where Heroin is sold to symbolize the fact that once you take

Heroin you can never 'leave': a reference to the addictive nature of the drug. Others claim that the

shoes so thrown commemorate a gang-related murder, or the death of a gang member, or as a

way of marking gang turf

Bermondsey

Wapping

This view of the Hang Man's noose and Canary Wharf was photographed from the riverside balcony of

the `Prospect of Whitby' Public House in Wapping.This is one of the most famous pubs in London.

It dates from 1520. One customer was Judge Jeffreys, the Hanging Judge who was rumoured to view

hangings from this point,taking place at nearby Execution Dock - pirates and mutineers were hanged

and left until three tides had washed over their bodies.Allegedly, an unknown plant was sold here to a

keen gardener by a passing seaman and so the first fuscia entered the country.

Lea Bridge

Park Bench at the Middlesex Filter Beds Nature Reserve. These filter beds were constructed to filter the water being

piped to east London houses in the 1850's (after yet another outbreak of Cholera).

The 'Beckton Alps'

Once Europe's largest gasworks - all that remains of the Beckton Gasworks today is a grass-covered heap of industrial

waste - the Alp was the original spoil from the coke used in that gasmaking. The London Docklands Development

Corporation created the 'Beckton Alps' as a monument to an extinct industry in the mid-1980s. Part of a railway locomotive

from the works was discovered buried there during excavations at the site. The fight scenes (Hanoi) in Full Metal Jacket,

were made by Stanley Kubrick in the dynamited ruins of Beckton gasworks. From 1989 to 2001 a dry ski slope ran down

the Beckton Alps and "London's premier ski village" was opened by Princess Diana This has now been swept away

presumably to accomodate the A13 widening and is being replaced nearby by a modern snowdome.

Wimbledon FC - Plough Lane

Founded in 1889, the "The Dons" spent most of their history in non-league football, before a rapid ascent to the top flight of English

football in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The club won the FA Cup in 1988. Just days after winning the FA Cup, the club's directors

announced plans to relocate to a new all-seater stadium in its home borough of Merton. But nothing came of these plans, and at the

end of the 1990–91 season Wimbledon decided that its cramped Plough Lane ground was beyond redevelopment, and decided to

move into Selhurst Park, sharing with Crystal Palace. Wimbledon's relatively low attendances, and the large number of rival clubs in

London, had meant that Wimbledon could not enjoy the high gate receipts received by many other Premiership clubs. With the team

homeless after the closure of Plough Lane, throughout the 1990s the club's directors mooted the idea of moving away from London

entirely to a more profitable location - Milton Keynes (which had a non League Football team) as the best opportunity. This caused

outrage amongst fans who formed their own team AFC Wimbledon who took most of the fanbase with them setting up home in nearby

Kingstonian's stadium while the "original" club was renamed MK Dons.

After many years of wrangling evelopers now have permission to build a housing estate of 570 flats which quashes any possibility of

football returning to Plough Lane.

Woodford Town FC

Founded in 1937, as a result of a public meeting for the express purpose of having a senior amateur club in the

borough. A piece of waste ground was rented from the council and "officials, players and supporters worked prodigiously

throughout the lose season" to get it ready.

WOODFORD TOWN FC was apparently a one-time hotbed of successful amateur football. In the post-war years, Town were

much-loved by their many fans and much-feared by their rivals in the game.The club produced a succession of international players

at amateur level.The club were trying to relocate to a ground within the borough of Redbridge since losing the rights to their Snakes

Lane home (pictured above) in 1992. They were playing football at Clapton's ground until Woodford Town were kicked out

of the Essex Senior League about 2003. The club is now believed to be defunct?

Can anyone help with more info or old pics of the ground/stands?

Woodford Bridge Junior School's football team from around 1949 taken at the Woodford Town FC ground.

more old pics

Lea Bridge

Disused subways in middle of roundabout

East Finchley	Barnsbury	Globe Town	Bermondsey
The era of the telephone kiosk is drawing to a close. British Telecom,has seen its takings from payphones fall by half since 1999. "We've got thousands that don't make enough to cover their cleaning costs," says BT's payphones division. They have recently began a programme of uprooting uneconomic kiosks. Up to 12,000 are disappearing each year. There are also privately owned kiosks housing orange telephones all over London and the company has appeared to have disappeared and the kiosks have become derelict and councils are taking their time removing them due to the cost of removing them and I believe they are trying to track down the company responsible.
Islington	Smithfield	Hammersmith	Brick Lane
Euston		Wandsworth