Pools - Derelict London

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="005fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <B>  </B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Rounded MT Bold" ><B>www.derelictlondon.com</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="02c5d430.jpg" border=0 width="93" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=50 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="006d2b03.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B>POOLS/PUBLIC BATHS</B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1982.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Book"><U><IMG SRC="2bc477640.jpg" border=0 width="119" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <I>"Having spent the past few centuries developing ever more sophisticated monuments to</I></div> <div> <I> aquatic recreation, swimming pool architecture seems to be in a state of regression. </I></div> <div> <I>The scenario today's swimmers are most likely to experience is a lukewarm bath of</I></div> <div> <I>chemicals and urine in a humid 1970s leisure centre - possibly the closest mankind </I></div> <div> <I>has come to recreating the primordial soup." </I><I><B>THE GUARDIAN</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1226.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hornsey Baths"><U><IMG SRC="1ea513ae0.jpg" border=0 width="275" height="430" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id1226.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hornsey Baths"><U><IMG SRC="1eb0e3b20.jpg" border=0 width="227" height="434" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id1226.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hornsey Baths"><U><IMG SRC="1ea7fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>  <A HREF="id1226.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hornsey Baths"><U><IMG SRC="1ea9fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id1226.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hornsey Baths"><U><IMG SRC="1eaffe310.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="305" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Hornsey Road Baths and Laundry</B></div> <div> The baths, which have been empty for since the 1980's , have recently been broken into and are now </div> <div> squatted. The building is due to renovated and used for housing, as well providing a new medical centre</div> <div> and the relocation of the Tower Theatre </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>  <A HREF="eltham_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eltham Lido"><U><IMG SRC="16f652c20.jpg" border=0 width="338" height="450" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> </div> <div> <A HREF="eltham_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eltham Lido"><U><IMG SRC="16fa57010.jpg" border=0 width="343" height="257" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="eltham_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eltham Lido"><U><IMG SRC="16ffc2020.jpg" border=0 width="194" height="258" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="eltham_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eltham Lido"><U><IMG SRC="16fc13ce0.jpg" border=0 width="275" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="eltham_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Eltham Lido"><U><IMG SRC="16fe08ce0.jpg" border=0 width="264" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Eltham Lido</B></div> <div> Officially opened in 1924, Eltham Lido closed in 1988, after new A2  Relief Road built </div> <div> nearby caused subsidence. The local Council is in discussion with the "Lawn Tennis </div> <div> Association" to see whether it might be possible to build an indoor tennis centre on </div> <div> the lido site. The plan by the community ('Splash') to bring the lido back into use was</div> <div>  turned down by the Council.</div> <div> Jonathan writes to Derelict London:</div> <div> <I>"</I><I>I remember about 24 years ago myself, my mate, and two birds we met over the CB going skinny-dipping there </I></div> <div> <I>at about 11 at night, in the summer - it was packed out! We had to climb over the wall and the water was absolutely </I></div> <div> <I>freezing! Everyone was whispering to avoid drawing attention to the locals - quite surreal! As we drove off from the </I></div> <div> <I>nearby Car Park we saw a posse of Police cars heading in there and we later found out that they busted the place!"</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id344.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="22b6a80f0.jpg" border=0 width="424" height="271" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id344.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="22b3fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="22b5fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Poplar Baths</B></div> <bR> <div> Poplar Residents are fighting to re-open the historic Poplar Baths.</div> <bR> <div> Poplar baths was built and opened in 1852 following the Baths & Wash Houses Acts in 1846-47  </div> <div> and rebuilt in 1933.<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >The larger pool, known as East India Hall, was floored over and used as a</FONT></div> <div> theatre (capacity 1,400), dance hall, exhibition room and sports hall especially for boxing and wrestling </div> <div> programmes. Wartime bomb damage forced the closure of the hall until 1947 when following required</div> <div> works, programmes resumed. Between 1954 - 1959 there used to be an average of 225,700 swimmers</div> <div> each year. In the 60's more sports were introduced to the Main Hall. However, poor repair, lack of investment</div> <div> and the changing nature of leisure with the revolutionary change in swimming pool design meant that when</div> <div> structural repairs were required on the roof in 1985, it was the beginning of the end.The baths remain </div> <div> empty, home to pigeons and drug addicts and seen very much as potentially a very valuable Poplar </div> <div> resource, which is being watched very carefully by people living on either side of the A13.</div> <div> <A HREF="http:// www.poplarbaths.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http:// www.poplarbaths.com"><U> www.poplarbaths.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1190.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marshall St Baths Soho"><U><IMG SRC="154b17d10.jpg" border=0 width="279" height="209" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id1190.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marshall St Baths Soho"><U><IMG SRC="154f15d00.jpg" border=0 width="277" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id1190.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marshall St Baths Soho"><U><IMG SRC="1b8615bc0.jpg" border=0 width="277" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id1190.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marshall St Baths Soho"><U><IMG SRC="1b8817bc0.jpg" border=0 width="279" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Soho - Marshall Street Baths</B></div> <bR> <div> The first public baths were built on the site by the Vestry of St James in 1850 and the present building, </div> <div> then known as The Westminster Public Baths, was started in 1928 and completed in 1931. It was built</div> <div>  with public funds for the health and well being of local people.</div> <bR> <div> The main pool is lined with white Sicilian marble and this marble and Swedish green marble are used on </div> <div> the walls at either end. The bronze fountain in a niche at the shallow end, depicting a merchild with two </div> <div> dolphins, is by Walter Gilbert. Behind the pool is a smaller pool, the 'second class bath' 70ft x 30ft' which </div> <div> also has a barrel vaulted roof. When built the complex also included a child's welfare centre, a public laundry</div> <div>  and public bathing facilities, among other things</div> <div> <A HREF="id1190.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Marshall St Baths Soho"><U><IMG SRC="1b8a93ce0.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> Marshall Street baths are owned by Westminster City Council and were closed by the City council in 1997</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="10f1e0290.jpg" border=0 width="224" height="297" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="109e0cc80.jpg" border=0 width="268" height="200" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div>  <A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="10a00ac70.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="199" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A><A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U> </U></A><A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U> </U></A><A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="14df07c70.jpg" border=0 width="263" height="199" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A><A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U>  </U></A>                                                                            </div> <div> <A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="10a20fcb0.jpg" border=0 width="271" height="203" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A><A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U> </U></A><A HREF="id874.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="10a407cb0.jpg" border=0 width="263" height="203" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Haggerston Baths </B></div> <div> <I>"Shoreditch is one of those go-ahead boroughs which regard public baths not as a luxury, but as a necessity" </I></div> <div> <I><B>Hackney Gazette</B></I><I> 1904 at the opening of Haggerston Baths..........</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Hackney Council closed the well-loved <B>Haggerston Baths</B> overnight in February 2000, following 10 years of poor </div> <div> maintenance such as checking fire extinguishers, keeping gutters clear etc. The reasons given were health and </div> <div> safety eg flaking paint. The timing happened to coincide with a £multi-million overspend on the new Clissold Pool </div> <div> in Stoke Newington.Despite a big community campaign to pressurise Hackney Council into reopening it, nothing</div> <div>  has happened. The pool building is deteriorating and, despite its Grade II listed  building status, is on the Council's </div> <div> list for disposals. Local authorities are reluctant to pay £6 million to refurbish it</div> <div> <IMG SRC="1d55fabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>pic courtesy of David Barrington</I></FONT></div> <div> <I><B>BUT.........</B></I></div> <div> Meanwhile,<B> the new </B><B>Clissold Pool</B><B> which cost £31 million has closed after only 2 years!</B>, "a state of the art</div> <div> sports facility in one of the poorest boroughs in the country, the design was paraded around the the world by the </div> <div> British Council, the Foreign Office and the Millennium Commission...meant to symbolise a brave new century and </div> <div> lauded as "prime examples of the excellence of British architecture and design.. the aluminium and glass complex</div> <div> hailed for its "functional modernism" - has been shut on safety grounds. The centre, in Hackney, east London, is </div> <div> plagued by flaws which have seen walls cracking, roofs leaking, water pouring into the electrical fittings and drains </div> <div> backing up. The showpiece swimming pools are seriously damaged and the walls of the squash courts are </div> <div> crumbling." (The Guardian Feb 2004). <I>Perhaps the money would have been more wisely spent on restoring the Haggerston</I></div> <div> <I>Baths.................</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Ken writes:</I><I>"</I><I>I</I><I> w</I><I>as "born and bred" in Shoreditch, your pictures of Haggerston Baths bring back many happy teenage </I></div> <div> <I>memories, "posing" on the top diving board in white swim trunks and keeping an eye open for any unaccompanied girls."</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>James Cassidy writes: "Living on Whiston Rd as a young lad in the Sixties, I also remember Haggerston Baths pretty well. </I></div> <div> <I>Not just the swimming pool, but the massive old laundry that was on the site as well, where the local women would do the</I></div> <div> <I>weekly wash in a haze of steam. The giant mangle for drying off sheets really sticks in my mind. It required at least 2 of </I></div> <div> <I>the women to hold the sheets and pass them through the rollers, and it wasn't unknown for a finger or 2 to get squashed</I></div> <div> <I>in them!"</I></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.haggerstonpool.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.haggerstonpool.com"><U><I>www.haggerstonpool.com</I></U></A></div> <div> <I><IMG SRC="1d567f760.jpg" border=0 width="127" height="118" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I>pic courtesy of David Barrington</I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id878.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG SRC="10d1dddf0.jpg" border=0 width="221" height="223" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B><B> </B><A HREF="id878.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG SRC="10ce2ee10.jpg" border=0 width="302" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B> </B></div> <div> <B>Manor Place Baths, Walworth </B></div> <div>  Also used as a post war boxing venue.</div> <div> There are tales of locals seeing the losers, even winners after a fight stagger into the Walworth Road with closed </div> <div> eyes and cut faces wearily leaning on anxious friends.  </div> <div> Part of the grounds are now used as a council waste recycling depot</div> <bR> <div> <I>Dennis O'Reilly writes to Derelict London: "Manor Place Baths also had the public baths where as a kid I was sent there once in a</I></div> <div> <I>blue moon to get a proper bath! And had to call out your cubicle number for more Hot or Cold! It was also the local wash house with</I></div> <div> <I>Big tubs & Dryers for the Mums to do a weekly laundry By Hand."</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Anne Roach  writes: " </I><I>Classic victorian municpal baths/laundry complex - in use up until the new Elephant & Castle Leisure Centre </I></div> <div> <I>opened in the late '70s. Can still smell the overload of chlorine! The laundry may have closed before that. Southwark Council then </I></div> <div> <I>took it over for offices. I often wonder if the original tiles of the building still lurk behind the plasterboard partitions... </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>I remember going to the laundry with my mum in the school holidays in the early '70s. Hours of boredom, but it was an amazing huge </I></div> <div> <I>(seemed to me) communal area - where women chatted, swapped out-grown kids clothes and accused newcomers of jumping the </I></div> <div> <I>queue for the machines in an atmosphere of perpetual damp heat. There were giant front loading washing machines, a mangle, a </I></div> <div> <I>roller contraption for pressing sheets and what I can only describe as huge wall of clothes horses that slid into some sort of heated </I></div> <div> <I>chamber where the clothes got dried. That was free as opposed to the few tumble dryers that you had to pay for. It seems a really </I></div> <div> <I>strange mixture now; right on the cusp of the old and the new, like a lot of stuff in the '70s. </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>There was a large double door in the pressing room and behind that was the boxing arena. I remember once, unusually, the door </I></div> <div> <I>had been left ajar so my 7 year-old self peeped inside. I still remember that ring looming up out of the dark, flags hanging all </I></div> <div> <I>around from the high ceiling and a faint smell of something unusual! </I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Kagyu Samye Dzong London,</B> a branch of Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, a Buddhist Centre which</div> <div> was established in 1967 will be renovating Manor Place Baths and using it as their London centre soon.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG SRC="10d3d9bb0.jpg" border=0 width="217" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B> </B></U></A><A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG SRC="10d5babb0.jpg" border=0 width="186" height="187" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B> </B></U></A><A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG SRC="10d9b8bd0.jpg" border=0 width="184" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG SRC="10db2e860.jpg" border=0 width="302" height="134" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B> </B></U></A><A HREF="id880.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><B><IMG SRC="10dd21870.jpg" border=0 width="289" height="135" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Twickenham </B></div> <div> Built in the thirties, in a concrete and brick art deco style, Twickenham Baths was municipal architecture in</div> <div>  the grand sense with its wide hall, twin staircase and deep arches. </div> <bR> <div> It occupied the site of Richmond House, which was demolished in the 1920s. The pool itself was an old-fashioned</div> <div>  Lido, the last word in leisure, generously proportioned and with ample room for sunbathing on the paved areas. </div> <div> There were fountains at each end of the pool and a diving board at its deepest point, in the middle. At one stage of its life,</div> <div>  it boasted a spacious canteen with a sweeping corner bay window leading on to a terrace with pool views. </div> <bR> <div> Twickenham pool was closed for repairs in the early 1980s and has remained disused ever since. The pool area is</div> <div>  now  covered in grafitti and overgrown with bushes.</div> <bR> <div> Monica Hall writes to Derelict London:</div> <div> <I>I went to Twickenham County Girls' Grammar School, and we were marched in a crocodile down to the baths immediately after the Easter</I></div> <div> <I> holidays for 'summer term' swimming lessons. I remember a day in April, overcast and chilly, when we were made to jump in water at 46F. </I></div> <div> <I>A highly memorable experience. I was 14 and yet thought I might suffer from cardiac arrest. After a while, in such temperatures, one got</I></div> <div> <I> rather light-headed and it didn't seem so bad .... we may have been close to hypothermia.... </I></div> <bR> <div> Update - December 2004</div> <div> The old swimming pool has been filled in with 1,500 tonnes of 'hard core' and numerous huge bins have carried away</div> <div> the old building. Among the general rubbish the contractors also had to handle many old syringes which were littered </div> <div> around the site.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="london_fields_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="London Fields Lido"><U><IMG SRC="14e1b94b0.jpg" border=0 width="441" height="331" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div>  <A HREF="london_fields_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="London Fields Lido"><U><IMG SRC="14e3d6a00.jpg" border=0 width="214" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="london_fields_lido.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="London Fields Lido"><U><IMG SRC="14e5dca00.jpg" border=0 width="220" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>London Fields Lido</B></div> <div> London Fields lido, E London, which closed in 1986,<B> reopened in2006</B>, becoming one of Britain's few 50-metre </div> <div> heated outdoor pools. It will solve the problem of what to do in winter by having a retractable roof and opening all year.</div> <div> The £2.5 million rebuilding cost is being funded by Hackney council, which said it had always wanted to reopen the pool </div> <div> but could not afford it until now.Jules Pipe, the mayor, said: "The pool has been derelict for 20 years and we are now able </div> <div> to bring this much-loved facility back to life."London Fields lido will be to Olympics specifications so it can be used as a </div> <div> training pool for London 2012.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1520.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="1cb808d40.jpg" border=0 width="264" height="212" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1cba29d50.jpg" border=0 width="297" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Purley Way  Lido</B></div> <div> Purley Lido opened in 1935 and closed in the 1979. In the summer of 1976, 9,000 people a day visited</div> <div> this lido. <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Its  diving board survives, providing a grandiose  advertisement hoarding for the garden centre  </div> <div> which now occupies the site.The garden centre was officially opened in 1981 by comedian and radio </div> <div> and television personality. Cyril Fletcher</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1191.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="1b8c2ae00.jpg" border=0 width="298" height="224" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Barking Lido</B></div> <div> Opened in May 1931,  The poolside buildings are of a later date.</div> <div> It had fine fountains at both ends, and flower beds. It closed in 1989,</div> <div> Whitbread/Brewster  applied for permission to build a pub and restaurant</div> <div> on the site a couple of years back but the site remains derelict. High walls </div> <div> prevented a closer look...</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1191.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="_"><U><IMG SRC="23542ee30.jpg" border=0 width="302" height="227" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <div> <B>Chelsea</B></div> <div> I think this was actually a model boating pool</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Any places you think should be on this site? Let me know! </B></div> <div> <B>Also info (however trivial) or stories/personal memories  on any of  the pools would </B></div> <div> <B>be appreciated.</B> </div> <div> or make a donation to derelictlondon:  <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" > <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_s-xclick"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="encrypted" value="-----BEGIN PKCS7-----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-----END PKCS7----- "> </form>  </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="derelict_london_com.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London.com"><U><I><IMG SRC="3c896370.gif" border=0 width="150" height="55" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></U></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>