Any old Pics - replicating google images, one post at a time (Part 1)

Issue 10 of Wax Poetics (2004) ran a feature of a record digger who came across some home made record covers at a flea market. The covers were signed “Mingering Mike”. Using detective skills the Pinkertons would have been proud of “Mingering Mike” was tracked down …




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Scouse Advent Calendar - remove a boarded up window every day til Christmas :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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FT…etc

Just below the wine bar :grin:

Actually, not under the wine bar as the station was renamed Green Park. But would have been nice if it was

Then & now,Covent Gdn

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The dates are striking

…worth a peep: http://flashbak.com/photos-of-slum-life-in-london-1969-72-54138/

Kitchen on a Brixton staircase London 1972



Courtyard of Chaucer House Hostel for the Homeless South London 1971

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Thanks for posting this up - some remarkable images in there.

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These, in particular, are mad.

Grocer & veg - Whitechapel 1972


Whitechapel 1972

Whitechapel 1972

https://pro.magnumphotos.com/Package/2K1HRGRHP0I

Superb


1947 Ridley Rd Market, Dalston - if not at this rally, at a very similar one in the same place, my Grandmother was arrested for hitting Mosley supporters over the head with an umbrella

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Early 70s selection box

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On a similar theme, I used to get one of these every year

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Earliest present i remember was one of these Batman helicopters from 1966.

Seem to sell for around £400 now.

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Stones near Baker St.

or more probably ‘Stoned near Baker Street’

Colonial tourism and prostitution: The visit to Bousbir in Casablanca (1924-1955)