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Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city
- TacticalCoder 8mo agoTFA describes a picture of 1965 Whitechapel High Road, where it meets Greatorex St. Here's the description from TFA: > Whitechapel High Road, 1965 ... > > Without Brân’s watchfulness, it was probably inevitable that the French would sneak across the Channel. You can see them in a grainy photograph taken in September 1960, outside the Sailors’ British Society in Limehouse, eight men and a woman, walking toward the camera, dressed in tweeds and overcoats. They are Parisian intellectuals > Sixty years later, the Spectacle saturates us in ways the Situationists never imagined. Here's what that corner looks like 60 years later: https://maps.app.goo.gl/zVasgCAH8vAdKn6G8 https://maps.app.goo.gl/zVasgCAH8vAdKn6G8
- tom_ 8mo agoThe link you provide looks like it'll be the corner shown in the photo in the article. The photo described is probably this one: https://libcom.org/article/fourth-si-conference-london https://libcom.org/article/fourth-si-conference-london - which I think is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mgWJB451fWpbX7JE8 https://maps.app.goo.gl/mgWJB451fWpbX7JE8