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Lambeth Walk Sculpture Park

Jun 132012

… despite ample free parking, the Lambeth Walk Sculpture Park is so far proving less than popular with tourists… [see more…]

Tagged with: Lambeth Walk, Matt Haynes, Sculpture

by Howard Colyer
Adam White said that he was approached by two tramps near Victoria Station who asked him if he was carrying a dictionary. He asked them why. And they said it was to settle a dispute. [read more…]

Tagged with: Howard Colyer, Victoria, West End, Westminster

London’s Most Deluded Gateposts

Jun 062012

Number Three:
Lemna Road, Leytonstone [see more…]

Tagged with: Leytonstone

Timetable

May 252012

by Meg Green
A swan is preening in the four foot. Another is standing on one foot on the iron railing. Although Bill has seen swans on the line before, he always finds the whiteness of their feathers startling. They are bigger than he thinks is reasonable for a bird. He draws the power brake smoothly back, bringing the train to a stand before the swans. He knows it is illegal to touch swans. They belong to the Queen. [read more…]

Tagged with: Ashford, Feltham, Meg Green, Trains

10.17 p.m.

Mar 132012

by Jacqueline Downs
It was the summer of 1976 when we set fire to David McIntyre. Round the back of Brockwell Lido, bushes hiding us from the expanse of the park. Every now and then it comes back to me. [read more…]

Tagged with: Brixton, Dulwich, Jacqueline Downs

Why Smoke is always late

Mar 122012

Rumours that recreational drug use at Smoke HQ is now endemic and beginning to seriously impact on the production schedule were yesterday and today meanderingly denied by a spokesdude. [see more…]

Tagged with: Matt Haynes, Old Kent Road

Over The Water

Mar 102012

by Matt Haynes
It’s hard to believe that it’s over ten years now since I first found myself gazing out wistfully over the Ethelred Estate from the top floor of a house just off Lambeth Walk still part-owned by Lambeth Council and wondering why there seemed to be so many helicopters around these days. [read more…]

Tagged with: Football, Lambeth Walk, Leyton, Matt Haynes

Rocked

Mar 082012

by Jane Woodham
We were a typical twosome: Tracey with her big red hair and matching mouth, and me, the sidekick, the quiet blonde one who encouraged from the sideline. We were mates because we liked the same band; it was all we had in common, but it was enough. [read more…]