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Mostly digital images with a few scans of older slides (marked ƒ).
Rollei B35 → Mamiya DSX1000 → Canon AF1 → Canon Powershot S50 → Canon Powershot Pro 1 → Panasonic DMC GH1.
Hover over ◊ where present to get pop-up comments. Red border = destroyed.
Mostly digital images with a few scans of older slides (marked ƒ).
Rollei B35 → Mamiya DSX1000 → Canon AF1 → Canon Powershot S50 → Canon Powershot Pro 1 → Panasonic DMC GH1.
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ƒ ◊BreakwaterSomewhere between Broadstairs & Ramsgate.
ƒ ◊GroyneOne of the many breakwaters along the coast at Eastbourne.
ƒ ◊PierWeather-worn textures at Margate.
ƒ ◊SerpentineAn early 'arty' photograph deliberately under-exposed to make use of the Kodachrome 64's natural blue bias.
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ƒ ◊TowerDerelict swimming pool complex in Ramsgate.
ƒ ◊WaveJust south of the main bay in Broadstairs.
ƒ ◊Rose In The RainTaken in a local park just after a light shower.All taken from home in central London.
◊Sky D006Looking straight up on 20090729 when the entire sky over central London was full of roiling grey clouds for about half an hour, though there was no rain as they passed.
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◊Sunnside PassageOne of the very few remaining Victorian iron electricity sub station boxes.
◊Westminster Bridge HouseOriginally, this imposing structure was the terminus for the London Necropolis Railway which took bodies out of the city to Brookwood in Surrey.
◊Westminster Bridge HouseOriginally, this imposing structure was the terminus for the London Necropolis Railway which took bodies out of the city to Brookwood in Surrey.
All scanned slides from the 1970s. Those marked † are my father's.
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◊ChristchurchBefore it was cleaned up and modern flats added; the spire remains slightly skewed.
† ◊PontingsThe third of the 'big three' department stores in Kensington High Street; "The House For Value" awaiting demolition.
† ◊WollandsThe loss of another department store.
† ◊London BridgeLooking down-stream towards Hayes Wharf; both sides of the river were still full of cranes.
† ◊London BridgeLooking south to the station steps and new buildings.
◊West London SidingsDerelict warehouse for Fyffes Bananas; exterior.
◊West London SidingsDerelict warehouse for Fyffes Bananas; interior.
◊West London SidingsCoal processing plant for creating town gas. Being downwind from this on certain days resulted in breathing a strangely heavy sweetly-sick odour.
◊West London SidingsGasometers next to the plant.
◊West London SidingsLooking East back to the warehouses, with newly-built Trellick Tower in the distance.
* what may be considered 'real' art, not the illiterate scrawling of taggers who spray everywhere with the same instinct as a dog pissing on a lamp-post.
