London - the Modern babylon, Julian Temple's documentary, now on BBC2. This looks terrific!
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London - the Modern babylon, Julian Temple's documentary, now on BBC2. This looks terrific!
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S_A, completely missed that due to Olympics Fest and only just seen your post. 4 days left to watch, will catch up with it on your recommendation.Originally Posted by Serial_Apologist
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00smkqn
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Resurrecting this thread because I discovered the wonderful Kensington & Chelsea Library website. I post this random link but select from the Menu and Past Posts on the righthand side to see old photographs in various categories (this is possibly only of interest to those who have lived in/known that area of London
http://rbkclocalstudies.wordpress.co...power-station/
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thanks for that Anna both S_A, others and meself had periods of childhood in those parts
some stuff from the library in today's Tgraf
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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Oh Anna!Thanks for discovering this wonderful site! - not only for the photos, but also for the 18th and 19th century paintings!
I could spend all day on here!
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You are welcome S_A, those of my family who were in London during the 50s and 60s owned a book shop in Earls Court Road.Oh Anna!
I could spend all day on here!Glad you are liking it.
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Anna, I wonder which one - maybe difficult to mention without blowing identities. We (our family) lived down Redcliffe Gardens until 1958, when I was 12, and then moved out to Essex when the flat's landlady suddenly gazumped the rent, following many arguments over who should incur the bills for the common hall entrance, as well as the increasing state of disrepair to the property as a whole. The district hadn't yet acquired today's high income bracket residentship, and such stories were common at that time. On returning to London to work in '65 I moved into a bedsit in the house of friends living just up the road with whom my parents had maintained friendship, and of course Earls Court Road - of which Redcliffe Gardens was the southward extension - had most of the shops where I obtained my food provisions. I don't recall specific bookshops, but your family's would of course have been there at that time!You are welcome S_A, those of my family who were in London during the 50s and 60s owned a book shop in Earls Court Road.
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these are astonishingly good stuff by Bert Hardy .... this is how it felt eh
"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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