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Reservoir Geese

Jun 092014

Tagged with: Animals, Battersea, Lucy Munro, Smoke on the Water, Thames

Looking back through the clouds…

Community Manifesto

by Mike Loveday
We watch the three of them stand inside the train sobbing. They stand inside the first carriage, facing the closed door at the back of the driver’s cabin. They stand and sob constantly, even when the train eases into each station. They cry to the limits of their lungs because they want everyone on the Chiltern Line to hear, everyone across London, through the countryside, on the roads, in the towns and in the villages. [read more...]

Going Back To Old Kent Road

by Matt Haynes
Although ostensibly a naked celebration of rampant free-market capitalism, Monopoly stifles those very instincts that should engender success by insisting that the planning departments of Westminster, Camden, Tower Hamlets and Southwark impose absurdly draconian building regulations, allowing for the construction of nothing but small green houses or big red hotels. You don’t, for example, get the chance to open a department store or computer showroom, or to have a small parade of bakers, greengrocers and shoe repairers. [read more...]

A Short Journey Downriver

by Mark Sadler
Twice a day, when the tide is high, the Thames floods the broad, low-ceilinged underground channel from which the Granville emerges. During the autumn and winter, as the temperature drops, these back surges create localised fogs that linger along Upper and Lower Thames Street. The river that London buried alive rises like a ghost through the porous layers of paving to reassert its claim upon its former overground course. [read more...]