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From The Archive Friday: Tubby Isaac’s

14 Friday Jun 2013

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Tubby Isaac’s, originally uploaded by neilclasper.

Closing today, according to Spitalfields Life. For the last ten plus years I’ve walked past Tubby Isaac’s jellied eel stall at lunchtimes, on my to and from work, and been able to see it from the windows of my office for much of that time too. I’ll miss it; that faded, squat icon of the East End and the Aldgate gyratory system.
What I’ve not done much of during those ten plus years, though, is buy jellied eels, so I feel I can’t grumble too much at its passing.

Whitechapel: abandoned mattress, Barratt Homes tower block

11 Tuesday Jun 2013

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Away from the much-discussed, filmed and photographed high-rise developments in the City and south bank – the Shards, Cheese graters, Walkie-Talkies, etc – a whole host of even-less inspired towers are rising on the eastern periphery. This Barratt Homes effort in Whitechapel looks particularly dismal, with its clumpy form and cheap-as-chips cladding.

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Freedom Press, Whitechapel

30 Thursday May 2013

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In something of a flashback to the 1930s, the anarchist bookshop tucked away off Whitechapel High Street was firebombed a little while ago. Viewed from the (quite decent) cafe in the Whitechapel Gallery earlier this week, it doesn’t look like it’s reopened yet.

 

(PS, if you’re in the vicinity, the Karl Blossfeldt exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery is excellent: the intersection of nature photography, surrealism, and architecture. Or, some nice close-ups of plants).

Thames at East Greenwich

17 Friday May 2013

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Thames at East Greenwich, originally uploaded by neilclasper.

This is the first landscape photo I’ve taken with my Sony RX100 that I’m actually quite pleased with. Required quite a bit of post-processing, plus cropping to remove the areas rendered ridiculous by the lens barrel distortion, but I’m happy with the colours and the detail – particularly in the cable car and gas holder,

Under grey sky; early May south London wandering

12 Sunday May 2013

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The burst of summer that came with the start of May has turned into something a bit more standard: sunshine, showers, and a stiff, cool breeze.

The last couple of days have taken me along the South Bank, and also into the odd, quiet backwater of Surrey Docks. If there’s a more dispiriting example of dockland ‘regeneration’ than that at Canada Water, I don’t want to go there. Decathlon and BHS arranged alongside, but largely ignoring, the water; their car park dominating the area; a token sculpture representing the area’s past. The coots looked happy enough, swimming in and out of the reed bed, I suppose.