DERELICT LONDON - PEOPLE
This is the London "they" don't want you to see — with "they" being the mayor, the politicians, the
tourist boards, and the Olympics 2012 bid team — for photographer Paul Talling captures the city in
its warts-and-all glory. For Talling, "derelict" doesn't just mean "dead" — although there are plenty of
engrossing shots of abandoned cemeteries, lost tube stations, and disused theatres. He finds a special
kind of beauty in the half-empty bingo hall, the rundown boozers, and the lovable freaks and weirdos
who populate our streets. What the powers-that-be don't get is that London isn't some chocolate-box
theme park; it's a loved-in, lived-in city, fat and bloated, and a bit rough round the edges. But that's
what Talling so expertly captures, that we just wouldn't have it any other way.
FLAVOURPILL
There's no such thing as a derelict person of course....
FOREST HILL
A great advert for the London Borough of Lewisham... A youth wandering down the road armed with a piece of wood
FINSBURY PARK
THE ASTORIA W1
BRICK LANE E1
LAMBETH SE1
NORTH LONDON GIGS
(left) SHEPHERDS BUSH -- (right PLAISTOW, ABBEY ARMS)
CENTRAL LONDON HOMELESS PEOPLE
VICTORIA EMBANKMENT GARDENS
George Orwell roughed it with tramps in his researches for 'Down and Out in Paris And London'. - He actually slept out at these gardens beside the Thames and offers this advice: 'get your bench early and stuff your clothes with newspaper'.
BLACKFRIARS (photo courtesy of Claudia Elliott)
Andrew More writes: "The man with the twin bicycles seems to run a mobile bicycle service business - I used to pass him every morning whilst commuting on my little motor scooter. He sets up camp on the south side of the bridge and repairs flat tyres and does adjustments to passing cyclists."
PECKHAM
WEST DRAYTON - INJURED GOALIE
The glamour of the FA Cup..... Despite suffering a nasty head injury early on in this FA Cup preliminary game at Uxbridge FC the Ash United goalkeeper bravely carried on all through the match. His team lost 4-3.
SOHO - Jimmy Pursey ex Sham 69
A London legend seen here in Soho Club (PUNK) in March 08 doing guest vocals at a Last Army gig
BARKINGSIDE - Aldershot Town fans away at Ford United FC
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Want present day pics of your old haunts?
Researching your family tree and need location pics?
Pictures taken to order - low cost - any job considered
(not just derelicts!).
Much cheaper than professional photographers
Contact: Paul at derelictlondon.com
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