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"Paul Talling's mesmerising website....
John Betjeman would have been proud of him"
Whats On in London
"Genius"
Danny Baker BBC London
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Derelict London is an unusual photographic portrait (of over 1200 pics) of the nations capital
This is not a compilation of familiar tourist sights, as another of those is hardly needed, but a depiction of an (often un-picturesque) view of everyday life in London
This site is obviously not taken to illustrate London at its most beautiful or most successful, the name derelict London is a memorable name for a website though not everything within this site is of derelict areas and everyone has their own definition of derelict......99% of these pictures were taken by myself during many miles of walkabouts around the great capital.After years of travelling via car or public transport I realised just how littleI had seen of London. (ie just stepping back and looking at buildings and people). I've enjoyed putting this site together and will continue to add more pics. Try not to be too critical because I'm no professional photographer. Neither is this some trendy art student project..............Any places you think should be on this site? Let me know! Also info (however trivial) or stories/personal memories on any of the buildings would be appreciated.
Pics are frequently added to this site so please keep coming back!
PAUL TALLING
April 2010 - All Photographs on this website are Copyright!!
‘I love walking in London,’ said Mrs. Dalloway, ‘Really, it’s better than walking in the country.’
Virginia Woolf, 1924
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More updates to follow during Summer 2010
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"Although it has quainter pleasures, much of the appeal of Paul Talling's excellent little book Derelict London is in how it seems to trace the skeleton of a dead city while it is still in apparently rude health.In a city so devoted to making fast money, and busily fighting a one-way class war under the rubric of "regeneration", sweeping undesirables and their buildings away to the outskirts, it is almost comforting that relics and ruins still cling on to its landscape, throwing workaday time into a spin. As much as it is an inadvertent vision of how London might look after a catastrophe, Derelict London is valuable as a document of the one going on right in front of us." THE NEW STATESMAN
Derelict London DID have a FACEBOOK page but got banned as they said that I violated their terms by advertising this website but Ive resurfaced on it as Paul Talling
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www.derelictlondon.com
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Please do not send me emails if you are looking for derelict properties to buy or looking for a derelict venue for a project or
film location as its unlikely that I can help as I dont have any
contact with or knowledge of the landlords. I have been
receiving several of these requests each week
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