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‘The project interested people
open to thinking about things’
… Hackney residents in the 80s.
Photograph: The Rio Cinema
Archive
Once upon a time in Hackney:
80s photos of poverty, protest – and partying
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Tue 27 Oct 2020
11.16 GMT
Last modified on Tue 27 Oct
2020 11.18 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/27
/rio-tape-slide-newsreel-group-hackney-cinema

Regent’s Canal, Bethnal Green, 1987
George Trewby’s magnificent gasometer
constructed for the Gas Light and Coke
Company in 1889
towers over the frozen canal
Photograph:
Colin O'Brien
(1940-2016)
The last days of London - in pictures
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Friday 24 July 2015
07.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/jul/24/
last-days-london-in-pictures-colin-obrien-photographs
Related
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/aug/26/colin-o-brien-obituary

Schoolgirls playing netball
on the roof of the Henry Fawcett School,
Kennington, London in 1938.
Photograph: William Vanderson/Getty Images
A letter to my school PE teachers, from a
former fat kid
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Friday 7 August 2015 16.52 BST
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/07/
pe-teachers-fat-children-stereotyped-overweight

Changing times … London, 1950.
Photograph: Haywood Magee/Getty
Images
The Life Project: what makes
some people
happy, healthy and successful –
and others not?
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Saturday 27 February 2016
08.59 GMT
Last modified on Saturday 27
February 2016 13.32 GMT
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/27/
the-life-project-what-makes-some-people-happy-healthy-successful-and-others-not

St Paul’s Cathedral from Southwark Bridge,
City of London
1855-9
Unknown photographer,
possibly Alfred
Rosling (1802-82)
Picturing England: photographs of English
life
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Wednesday 29 July 2015
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/29/
picturing-england-photographs-english-life-historic-archive
city > London UK /
USA
http://www.londonmapper.org.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/27/
rio-tape-slide-newsreel-group-hackney-cinema
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/jun/03/
unhappy-hour-londons-west-end-during-lockdown-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/sep/02/
big-picture-chris-schwarz-albany-arts-centre-deptford
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/apr/04/
how-london-southall-became-little-punjab-
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/oct/03/
london-markets-100-years-ago-archives-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/society/gallery/2017/sep/18/
no-place-like-home-in-pictures
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/18/
537890448/london-literally-stank-in-the-summer-of-1858-just-ask-dickens-and-darwin
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/11/world/europe/uk-london-
brexit.html
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/mar/06/
brick-lane-exposed-impressions-east-end-london-1980s-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/nov/29/
ken-russell-post-war-london-in-pictures-rolleicord-teddy-girls
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/aug/26/
colin-o-brien-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/23/
unbuilt-london-monorail-straight-river-thames
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/aug/02/
how-london-was-built-tower-bridge-southbank-in-pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/17/
john-claridge-east-end-photographs-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/mar/31/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/31/
ian-nairn-london-guide-architecture-book-archive-1966
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/14/
winners-and-losers-london-social-housing-divide-barnet-camden
londoners-in-pictures-tori-ferenc
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/
opinion/sunday/london-lost-and-found.html
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/nov/03/
london-might-have-been-designs-alternative-architecture-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/video/2015/oct/22/
antony-gormley-london-squatted-how-things-changed-video
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jul/29/
picturing-england-photographs-english-life-historic-archive
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/
opinion/roger-cohen-lovely-lamentable-london.html
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/jul/24/
last-days-london-in-pictures-colin-obrien-photographs
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/02/
london-new-york-capital
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/06/
developers-antiseptic-london-city
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/24/
the-city-that-privatised-itself-to-death-london-is-now-
a-set-of-improbable-sex-toys-poking-gormlessly-into-the-air
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/23/
is-london-a-good-place-to-live
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/22/
bridge-the-architecture-of-londons-river-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/may/22/
london-through-eyes-graphic-designer-edward-bawden
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/11/
new-london-housing-aimed-at-wealthy
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/20/
future-london-capital-risks-soul
http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/10/20/
travel/lessons-from-living-in-london.html
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/05/
crap-towns-london-bradford-chipping-norton
Central
London > West End
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_of_London
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/jun/03/
unhappy-hour-londons-west-end-during-lockdown-in-pictures
London
borough in Inner London > Hackney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Hackney
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/27/
rio-tape-slide-newsreel-group-hackney-cinema
Deptford, south-east
London
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/sep/02/
big-picture-chris-schwarz-albany-arts-centre-deptford
How London's Southall became 'Little Punjab'
G Wed 4 Apr 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/apr/04/
how-london-southall-became-little-punjab-
ome reinvented,
others long lost:
London's markets 100
years ago – in pictures G
3 October 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/oct/03/
london-markets-100-years-ago-archives-in-pictures
Brick Lane exposed:
a 1980s view of east
London – in pictures G
6 March 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/mar/06/
brick-lane-exposed-impressions-east-end-london-1980s-in-pictures
London Ends:
the
city's forgotten neighbourhoods – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/dec/02/
london-ends-city-forgotten-neighbourhoods-in-pictures
Ken Russell's
post-war London – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/nov/29/
ken-russell-post-war-london-in-pictures-rolleicord-teddy-girls
London's sewers
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2016/nov/10/
virtual-reality-by-the-guardian
Neverwhere - an
alternate London beneath the real city
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/jul/14/
illustrating-neil-gaimans-neverwhere-in-pictures-chris-riddell-london
How London was built:
from Tower Bridge to
the South Bank – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/aug/02/
how-london-was-built-tower-bridge-southbank-in-pictures
The vanished East End
– in pictures
David Granick’s shots
from the 1960s and 70s
capture a fading
world.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/feb/13/
east-end-in-colour-london-david-granick
Corsets and chickens:
the East End in the 1960s – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/17/
john-claridge-east-end-photographs-in-pictures
From Cripplegate to
Agar Town:
inside London's
vanished neighbourhoods
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jun/24/
london-vanished-neighbourhoods-cripplegate-agar-town-limehouse-chinatown
the Great Fire of London 1666
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/30/
great-fire-of-london-1666-350th-anniversary-which-buildings-disappeared
city > London > Brixton
UK / USA
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jan/14/
brixton-makeover-gentrification-then-and-now-in-pictures
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/05/world/europe/
from-riots-and-rebels-to-juice-bars-and-tapas-a-new-brixton-emerges.html
city > London > London Mapper
A Social Atlas
of London - launched 11 May 2014
http://www.londonmapper.org.uk/
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/11/
london-houseprices
Norman Foster
unveils plans
for elevated
'SkyCycle' bike routes in London 2
January 2014
Plan for 220km network
of bike
paths suspended above railway lines
could see commuters gliding to work over rooftops
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2014/jan/02/
norman-foster-skycycle-elevated-bike-routes-london
inhabitant
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/apr/07/
londons-most-expensive-street-kensington-palace-gardens
cityscapes
Shit London awards 2012 - in pictures
2012
The winners and runners-up
in the second annual
Shit London photography
awards,
celebrating the city's
ugliest buildings,
worst shop names
and most depressing
views
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/dec/06/
shit-london-awards-2012-in-pictures
skyscraper
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/dec/02/
london-high-rise-craze-ruins-skyline
high-rise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/dec/02/
london-high-rise-craze-ruins-skyline
tower
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/dec/02/
london-high-rise-craze-ruins-skyline
skyline
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/13/
boris-johnson-proper-debate-london-skyline
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/12/
london-skyscrapers-shard-gherkin-architecture
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/dec/02/
london-high-rise-craze-ruins-skyline
London's skyline > the Shard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2012/oct/26/
view-shard-london-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/30/
shard-renzo-piano-london-bridge
London's historic skylines
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/apr/21/
london-historic-skylines-in-pictures
What a difference 400
years makes:
the London skyline
1616 v 2016 – interactive
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/03/
london-skyline-1616-2016-interactive-faders-visscher
Boston Globe > Big Picture
London from above, at night
USA
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/
london_from_above_at_night.html
block of flats
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/31/
london-teenage-stabbing-victim-named
on the Pelican Estate
in Peckham, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/dec/30/
london-gang-deaths-david-cameron
Robin Hood Gardens housing estate
in Poplar,
east London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/joepublic/2009/jul/27/
robin-hood-gardens-listed
Heygate housing estate in south London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/sep/03/
heygate-estate-south-london-hollywood
gentrification
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jan/14/
brixton-makeover-gentrification-then-and-now-in-pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/18/
-sp-truth-about-gentrification-how-woodberry-down-became-woodberry-park
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/07/
new-local-butcher-fishmonger-pleasing
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/02/
london-inequality-house-prices
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2013/aug/02/
alex-wheatle-gentrification-brixton-video
cities > aerotropolis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/mar/03/
aerotropolis-london-kasarda-rowan-moore
lidos and ponds
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/jul/24/
outdoor-swimming-tour-london-top-10-lidos-and-ponds

Grosvenor House, Park Lane
This wild 1933 redesign
of the hotel in Park Lane
by German artist and set designer
George Ramon
includes a multi-level road – and a landing strip on the roof
G
Tuesday 3 November
2015 12.45 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/nov/03/
london-might-have-been-designs-alternative-architecture-pictures
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