Spring 2008Updates

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="005fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <B>  </B><B> </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Rounded MT Bold" ><B>www.derelictlondon.com</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B><IMG SRC="02c5d430.jpg" border=0 width="93" height="67" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=50 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="006d2b03.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id1982.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London Book"><U><IMG SRC="2c4c9c910.jpg" border=0 width="156" height="145" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c11f0740.jpg" border=0 width="496" height="372" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Bermondsey - Public ToiLet - Refurbishment Opportunity!!</B></div> <div> Planners will stop at nothing these days............</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c15198d0.jpg" border=0 width="281" height="397" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Upper St Martins Lane WC2</B></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="573" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP ROWSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 213 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2c1824a20.jpg" border=0 width="292" height="418" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2c190acd0.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="205" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2c1a0ac50.jpg" border=0 width="266" height="197" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <B>Camberwell - Kennedy Sausages</B></div> <div> The company, had been run by the same family for 130 years, had nine stores across SE London closed</div> <div> at the end of 2007.As well as sausages, the company was known for its Christmas puddings, sausage rolls,</div> <div> meat pies, puff pastry etc. It will be sadly missed.Despite having a fantastic reputation and loyal customers </div> <div> the company could not afford the overheads and competition from the corporates.</div> <bR> <div> <I>"Judging by the queue just before it closed shoppers took their money from Northern Rock walked round the </I></div> <div> <I>corner and invested in sausages!" </I>Quote from the local paper</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c265e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Fitzrovia</B></div> <div> Some banky-esque art beside a cashpoint</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c1b1fd80.jpg" border=0 width="287" height="216" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2c1c0fda0.jpg" border=0 width="271" height="218" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Camberwell - The Old Dispensary</B></div> <div> A bit more upmarket than most of the local alternatives. CamberwellOnline Blog in 2004 wrote</div> <div> "Coupled with the slightly high bar price and the feeling of luxury, it’s obvious that this place is aimed at </div> <div> Camberwell’s more affluent residents. Thing is, I’m not sure there is a big market for that. I guess we’ll</div> <div> find out." Well we  have found out as its been boarded up for the last few months.....</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c1efd350.jpg" border=0 width="253" height="309" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Soho - Jimmy Pursey ex Sham 69</B></div> <div> A London legend seen here in Soho Club (PUNK) in March 08 doing guest vocals at a Last Army gig</div> <div> performing "The Kids Are United"</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c2cfea90.jpg" border=0 width="254" height="169" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Thats me at PUNK in Soho at the same gig!</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c1dfabc0.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="188" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Dalston - Railway Tavern</B></div> <div> Now a bookies. Dalston Junction Station opposite closed in 1981</div> <div> The station was used in the 1959 film "Look Back in Anger" staring <B>Richard Burton</B>. A launch party for the</div> <div> film was held in the station buffet.Perhaps they nipped over the road to here for a swift half......</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2bfd03690.jpg" border=0 width="515" height="361" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div>  <IMG SRC="2c06f0af0.jpg" border=0 width="240" height="175" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2bff0eae0.jpg" border=0 width="270" height="174" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> <IMG SRC="2c033efb0.jpg" border=0 width="318" height="251" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2c05c0fa0.jpg" border=0 width="192" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Bromley By Bow - St Andrews Hospital</B></div> <bR> <div> Notorious smelly East End Hospital during its latter years.</div> <bR> <div> St Andrew's Hospital was founded in 1868 as the Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum, under the</div> <div> Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867along architectural lines favoured by Florence Nightingale, and </div> <div> opened in 1873.  The Asylum was renamed St Andrew's Hospital in 1921.The hospital grew </div> <div> through 19th century extensions to over 650 beds. A school of nursing was established in 1875 </div> <div> and nurses followed a three year course for a certificate of training and sick cookery. By 1930 </div> <div> an optional maternity training course had been established and the nursing staff had expanded</div> <div> to over 200. The hospital closed in 2006</div> <bR> <div> The 3-hectare site is situated next to Bromley by Bow station, and not far from the 2012 Olympic </div> <div> site. Redevelopment plans incorporate 800-900 new homes, which will see a mixture of small and </div> <div> large family homes,50 per cent of which are anticipated to be set aside for affordable housing. </div> <div> Plans also include a new health centre, open spaces for leisure, and local shops. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c082fe30.jpg" border=0 width="303" height="227" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Bromley By Bow - Tenterden Arms Public House</B></div> <div> Large plush one bar pub run by the same family for over 60 years until the 1970's.</div> <div> Frequented  by quite a few un-desireables apparently in its latter days until closing</div> <div> in 2007.</div> <div> This unusual name for a pub probably is anmed after the Kent town of Tenterden. The</div> <div> town grew from the 14th century around the wool industry and later wood from nearby forests </div> <div> was used to construct ships.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c0a2f940.jpg" border=0 width="303" height="404" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Soho - The Lyric Public House</B></div> <div> I used to meet friends here during the early 90's. Decent locals boozer with a few theatre workers</div> <div> now closed but due to be reopened as some  "Soho's latest eating meeting & drinking experience"</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c0e60020.jpg" border=0 width="352" height="258" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Wapping - St Patricks Social Club</B></div> <div> As Wapping has become home to upwardly mobile people living in warehouse conversations and property prices</div> <div> going through the roof I regarded this as one of the last bastions of old Wapping. A place where locals could still </div> <div> buy a cheap pint & attend occasional charity discos in a place that probably hadnt changed much since the 60's. </div> <div> I remember even seeing old men with check caps in there in 2005 and the bar surrounded by faded old pics of </div> <div> Wapping FC, social trips to Southend and a signed pic of Norman Wisdom who used to attend there back in the day.</div> <bR> <div> Nearby St Patrick’s Church,<B> </B>is the site of the Good Friday service in the film The Long Good Friday, where Harold</div> <div> Shand’s mum narrowly escapes being blown up, triggering the rest of the chain of events (the church interior was used).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c135e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Wapping - HM Customs Letterbox</B></div> <div> A bricked up letterbox in a wall. This is the 2nd one I have seen lately (the other one is at Lovells Wharf)</div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2c175e0c0.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="268" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>East Dulwich - Dog Kennel Hill</B></div> <div> Not derelict but...I spotted this modern sculpture obviously there because of the location Dog Kennel Hill. </div> <div> Does anybody know the reason it was originally called Dog Kennel Hill though? Did royalty once keep kennels</div> <div> there? eg like Henry V111 having kennels at the Spotted Dog in Forest Gate..........</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c205e070.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="263" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Bow - Disused Workshop</B></div> <div> Another building destined for demolition due to close proximity of the Olympic 2012 site</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c225e060.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Wandsworth - Einstein</B></div> <div> Some interesting art down by the recycling depot. SE Man is astonished by everything....</div> <div> ???!!!</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c24075e0.jpg" border=0 width="263" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Bow</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c28075e0.jpg" border=0 width="263" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2c2a015f0.jpg" border=0 width="257" height="351" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Bermondsey - The Barnaby</B></div> <div> Originally called the Canterbury Tavern.</div> <bR> <div> Before and after every home match the pub has long been rammed with Millwall fans, </div> <div> whether it be to drown their sorrows or raise a glass to three points.Now its destined to become flats.</div> <bR> <div> The landlady of The Barnaby, for 10 years called the decision to close the pub "a real blow for the </div> <div> community". "Millwall fans from all over have always come here on match days. Now there is not </div> <div> really anywhere for them to go," she added. "The nearest pub they could go to is a good half hour </div> <div> walk to the ground. They used to leave here at 2.45pm and be in the Den for kick-off at 3pm. "There </div> <div> is always such a great atmosphere here. Everyone is friendly. It is a family pub really."</div> <bR> <div> Pete recalls this pub in the 1970's: "This is about as Old London as you can get, and was even more </div> <div> so back in 1978. The pub was heaving that Friday night, and you didn't see many black faces. Well, </div> <div> you didn't see any black faces, or Arab faces, or, indeed, any faces other than the eponymous "faces"</div> <div>  of the manor (yes, they spoke like that round there). Millwall supporters to a man (not many women to </div> <div> be seen, either), this was the heart of National Front territory in those days"</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c2e15d00.jpg" border=0 width="277" height="208" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2c3018d20.jpg" border=0 width="280" height="210" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Spitalfields</B></div> <div> Just around the corner from the upwardly mobile new Spitalfields regeneration project</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c32065e0.jpg" border=0 width="262" height="350" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Vauxhall - Origami Birds</B></div> <div> Hanging beneath railway bridge. Another mystery......</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c345ee50.jpg" border=0 width="350" height="229" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Forest Hill - Forest Hill Pool </B></div> <div> This 120 year old building  (believed to have been the oldest working swimming baths in London) </div> <div> was shut for possible refurbishment in 2006. Lewisham Council has now decided it is beyond</div> <div> repair and will demolish the building and replace it with a leisure centre.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2c36f9440.jpg" border=0 width="249" height="324" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2c38f3440.jpg" border=0 width="243" height="324" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>New Cross - Besson Street Estate</B></div> <div> Flattened already to make way for a new development.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2b24b2450.jpg" border=0 width="434" height="325" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>East Dulwich</B></div> <div> A bizarre tribute to George Melly in a gents toilet</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b2c6a4f0.jpg" border=0 width="106" height="79" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2b2e4b4f0.jpg" border=0 width="75" height="79" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2b32614f0.jpg" border=0 width="97" height="79" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2b37624e0.jpg" border=0 width="98" height="78" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2b34634f0.jpg" border=0 width="99" height="79" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2b39574f0.jpg" border=0 width="87" height="79" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Derelict Street in Denmark Hill</B></div> <div> The whole of this street is derelict. Anyone know why? Must be worth a fortune......</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b3b3cd60.jpg" border=0 width="316" height="214" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>East Dulwich Bungalow</B></div> <div> Another mystery is this boarded up prefab  bungalow in Lordship Lane. </div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b4115bf0.jpg" border=0 width="277" height="191" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="2b3f18c00.jpg" border=0 width="280" height="192" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="548" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 256 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b44befa0.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="342"><div> <B>San Dominico Restaurant & Bar Cobham</B></div> <div> Ive driven past this empty building beside the A3 for years. There is something always slightly sinister looking about it - in a Hammer House of Horror sort of way. There is always a light on in one of the windows presumably security. </div> <div> There have been rumours that it has some sort of secret military use.....................</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b82be2e0.jpg" border=0 width="446" height="302" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Fashion Street, E1 </B></div> <div> Note the shoes hanging from the cables</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b6bc2510.jpg" border=0 width="450" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Shoreditch</B></div> <div> The above building and the following artwork in the Brick Lane area of Shoreditch</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="579" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 149 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b47bb8c0.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b4bb38f0.jpg" border=0 width="179" height="143" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b4dbe8e0.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="142" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 234 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b4fbee30.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="227" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b51abe30.jpg" border=0 width="171" height="227" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b53bbe40.jpg" border=0 width="187" height="228" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 278 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b55bf0f0.jpg" border=0 width="191" height="271" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b57bc100.jpg" border=0 width="188" height="272" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b59ba0e0.jpg" border=0 width="186" height="270" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 268 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b5bbe060.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b5db6050.jpg" border=0 width="182" height="261" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b69ba060.jpg" border=0 width="186" height="262" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 150 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b63c0900.jpg" border=0 width="192" height="144" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b65b38d0.jpg" border=0 width="179" height="141" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b67bc8d0.jpg" border=0 width="188" height="141" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=3 HEIGHT= 436 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="2b6d3c9b0.jpg" border=0 width="572" height="411" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2b6fd6a00.jpg" border=0 width="214" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2b70d5a00.jpg" border=0 width="213" height="160" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG SRC="2b6ead160.jpg" border=0 width="429" height="278" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Camelot Fashions, Aldgate</B></div> <div> A remnant from the old Commercial Road rag trade. </div> <div> Another site destined to be demolished to make way for an office block or apartments</div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="2b722ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2b762ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="2b782ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2b7a2ce10.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="225" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>Waterloo Station Eurostar Terminal</B></I></div> <div> Following the relocation of the main Eurostar Terminal to St Pancras, Waterloo International</div> <div> lays empty.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b7ce12c0.jpg" border=0 width="225" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="2b7ee42c0.jpg" border=0 width="228" height="300" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Regents Palace Hotel, Soho</B></div> <div> The Regent Palace closed on the 31st of December 2006 having first opened in 1915.</div> <div> During the First World War, a considerable part of the hotel was requisitioned by the British</div> <div> Government and during the Second World War, 2 separate bombs caused minor damage.</div> <div> One of these bombs hit the staff Annexe This staff annexe building also contained a </div> <div> complete laundry service for all of the Strand hotels in London. </div> <div> In the 1960’s, the hotel developed a less than favourable reputation as a place of ill repute </div> <div> - a  meeting point for ladies of the night to ply their trade.</div> <bR> <div> I found this review on the net by an unhappy guest at the hotel: "Abysmal. Bedbugs in most</div> <div> beds, filthy rooms with stains all over the walls, disgusting shower and toilet facilities and</div> <div> very worn and dated decor. Staff were nice enough, manager couldn't care less because</div> <div> he said the hotel was being closed this December. I am still itching at the thought of my </div> <div> stay. Our party had to check out after the first night because most people had bites. </div> <div> I had to show the manager the bodies of the 10 bedbugs I found (whilst just glancing at the</div> <div> top blanket) before he would believe me and give me a refund. Revolting."</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="2b80be4e0.jpg" border=0 width="446" height="334" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Direct Bargain Centre, Bethnal Green</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>Heres some pics uploaded last  year:</B></I></div> <bR> <div>        <A HREF="id1821.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="May2007 updates"><U><IMG SRC="2b15d3c60.jpg" border=0 width="211" height="198" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A>      <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="id1543.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jan 2007 updates"><U><IMG SRC="2b16d0c50.jpg" border=0 width="208" height="197" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="derelict_london_com.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Derelict London.com"><U><I><IMG SRC="3c896370.gif" border=0 width="150" height="55" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>