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The Little Crown has fallen and is currently being looked after by squatters.
First recorded publican, 1861.
This structure dates from 1898.
Closed down in 2005.
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Former cinema, then a Mecca Bingo hall that is soon to be demolished. Note the asbestos warning.
Far too many of these old cinemas are getting the chop.
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Soon to move and I do wonder if the Georgian building will be demolished for yet more flats.
I assume by looking at the brickwork that it has wartime bomb damage as the area was extensively hit due to it's proximity to the docks.
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The Brunel.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS, (b.9th April 1806 - d.15th September 1859), master of mechanical and civil engineering.
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This is just an example to show just how difficult it must be, for an Dutch Architectural Photographer to get a good image.
There is one really true vertical and one true horizontal line is this image.
As seen at All Saints Parish Church in Wigan where 3 CCTV cameras keep an eye on you whether you believe or not...... Here's what Wikipedia has to say about the building:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_Wigan
Civic building fallen on hard times.
Formerly Poplar Borough Council.
Note the beautiful mosaic work.
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Most, Danny Sodor & Pizza in the Rain.
Victorian craftsmanship laid waste and at the mercy of the buddleia.
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Old Gold, catch them before they are gone.
"Sorry we are closed to day" :-)
I missed out on documenting many of London's characterful shopfronts and their owner's when I was growing up but I was alway's aware that I would try to do so when I was able, alas it is too late as the best are long gone now though every now and then I find a special one that catches my eye. I would advise any photographer to have a go at doing the same as the world seems to be drifting into unimaginitive uniformity and conformity.
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This was part of my first warm-up brief.
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Nikon Z6, Nikkor 24-70mm f/4 S,
Exposure X7, Color Efex Pro 5, Silver Efex Pro 3
Post War, Brutalist/Modernist bus garage, Grade ll* Listed building, opened in 1952, built on a residential site that was destroyed in the Blitz.
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Station frustration.
8 minutes to kill at Crouch Hill station, I was waiting in anticipation beside an 'X' kindly sprayed by a kind soul that marks where the last door of the train should stop. Getting on at this point means I'm closer to the exit at my destination. I cheered up a bit as I saw and heard the train appear on time hundreds of metres along the track. The train slowed, then slowed down some more, the driver smiling and making eye contact as the front of the train passed, ... then passed beyond my pole position 'X' mark and it was then it dawned on me that the train was three carriages shorter than usual and I then had to run and join the back of the masses squeezing their way on into a heap similar to a Picasso painting !!!, I was livid. No wonder the driver was smiling :-).
Note the 6 CCTV cameras on the opposite entrance/exit.
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Ilex Camera Works (A.C.Jackson), from 1900 - 1904.
Alfred Charles Jackson, Camera Manufacturer from the early day's of the 20th Century.
The building was later used by R.Turner Ltd, makers of board games.
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Himbad & Dotmaster.
A third figure has been added on the right. Compare it with the previous shot in the Van Art album.
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Obviously seen better days ..
The 01 for London telephone dialling prefix was discontinued in May 1990.
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“What kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. Something huge, terrible, and glittering—a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons.” – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty Four
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It’s been a while since I opened up Photoshop for a bit of cheeky image editing, so here’s the latest experimental result! This one depicts a very British dystopia. George Orwell remains an infinitely quotable chap for this sort of subject, and I highly recommend his thought-provoking literary works. 'Nineteen Eighty Four' was a truly visionary undertaking – it foreshadowed the concept of a surveillance society long before the development of modern day technologies that would make it all possible.
Britain is leading the world when it comes to CCTV. It has one and a half times as many surveillance cameras as communist China. The exact number of them in the UK is not known but an estimate in 2002 counted the figure at well over four million. The methodology of collecting such statistics is rather vague but reasonable research suggests that our country now has one camera for every 14 people.
The security infrastructure being created, whilst valid in many respects, presents a plethora of worrying possibilities. The coupling of CCTV cameras with facial recognition algorithms that track people through crowds, read registration plates and log all this data for future use is handy for current civil enforcement but leaves the door open for the state of the future to have profound levels of control over society.
(Thanks go to Richard Dawkins and the editors of Boing Boing for using the image to illustrate this article and sending lots of visitors here as a result.)