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More 'historic' pictures from 2013. This road is now pedestrianised. Which is perhaps sensible in view of the enormous number of buses that used to go down a narrow road, but the diversion adds much extra time and mileage. The buses are quite slow enough as it is...
Spent the weekend in London and managed some candid shots, including this dude, in one of the markets around Hackney.
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A second paper negative obtained from my Wallace Heaton Zodel quarter-plate camera. One second at f32. Suffering greatly from the inevitable high contrast of using Ilford Multigrade IV as a negative, along with the contrast of a bright sky skewing my metering, I was surprised to be able to tease this much of an image out of the negative, which looks like a silhouette. The edges of the negative seem to be in much sharper focus than the Hackney Empire image, for some reason I've yet to understand. The bad framing is down to resting the camera on a park bench for the one-second exposure.
Edit 15/12/10:
The lens panel isn't parallel to the film plane, which doesn't register so much at f32, but the Hackney Empire frame was shot at f4.5, which made it very noticable. For the Cornwall shots, I physically pushed the front standard forward in an attempt to make it parallel.
A hackney or hackney carriage (also called a cab, black cab, hack or London taxi) is a carriage or automobile for hire. A hackney of a more expensive or high class was called a remise.
Seperate Male & Female entrances to Haggerston Baths in Whiston Road, hopefully the swimming pool will one day be restored and resurrected.
Opened 1904, Grade 2 listed 1988, closed since Feb 2000.
Read about it in 'Great Lengths: the historic indoor swimming pools of Britain' and 'Hackney: Modern, Restored, Forgotten, Ignored'