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Look At Life – London newsreel bonanza
I’ve just come across a treasure trove on You Tube of old Rank Look At Life newsreels, each ten-minutes long and looking at different aspects of London life. There are some real treats to be found, but...
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At the Poll Tax Riot
I attended the Poll Tax Riot by accident. I was at the theatre with my family on Charing Cross Road when the lights came up at the end of the performance and the house manager told us there had been a...
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The many voices of Bon Scott
While there’s no such thing as a romantic rock death, there are few as bleakly pathetic as that of Bon Scott, the AC/DC frontman who died drunk in the passenger seat of a Renault 5 outside a friend’s...
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Homeless in London
This is a rewritten version of a piece I wrote on London’s homeless tours in 2011. No amount of playful London nerdery can prepare you for the emotional thump that is an Unseen Tour. These walks are...
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In defence of Midtown
I recently wrote a piece for The London Magazine about Midtown. Midtown is the bastard offspring name for what people traditionally think of Holborn. For some reason, that really pisses people off....
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Disappearing London: Food For Thought
I have a piece in the Guardian about the closure of Food For Thought, one of London’s most charismatic and seemingly nuclear-proof (and I’m not just talking about the consistency of the scones)...
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Photographing London in the 1970s
This is my mum’s brother, Wilfred Camenzuli. Born in Alexandria, Egypt and raised in Tooting, south London. Back then, everybody in south London carried a shooter. Wilf was always taking pictures....
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In the depot
I finally made it to one of the London Transport Museum’s twice-early weekend openings at their Acton depot. where they store the buses, trams and train carriages they can’t exhibit in Covent Garden....
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