Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi John, That part of London was a dire spot indeed, I spent a couple of years in the early seventies in Campbell Road in Bow, not all that long after the arrest and imprisonment of the Kray brothers. There were still quite frequent drive-by shootings and gangland vendettas in pubs down around the East India Dock Road, mainly Irish against locals, and there's many an evening where I could have bought all manner of goods of doubtful heritage in The Campbell (right next door to my flat above a derelict shop, but now demolished and redeveloped) or the Widows Son on Devons Road (it's still there, but doesn't exactly get rave reviews). What a difference to the environs of our offices in the Ebury Gate office block in Belgravia! But that was just as notorious, Lord Lucan did his dirty deeds and disappeared from just across the road, never to be seen again. The good thing about the East End was that it wasn't threatened by the IRA bombers who were scaring central London to death at the time - I vividly remember a car backfiring at Victoria Station and everyone looking for cover and a police explosives squad doing a controlled explosion on an abandoned or forgotten plastic bag that turned out to have contained a water melon. And how I miss the Savaloy and chips from a small shop in Covent Garden, the Young's Ram Rod ale in the Lamb in Lamb's Conduit Street in Holborn, lunch and the office darts team matches in the Three Cups when it was still a proper pub (also Holborn) and the pie shops in the East End. Cheers Douglas On 15.03.2011 19:35, John McMaster wrote: >> Thamesmead - today, a good place for fishing and getting mugged or shot, a > case of art influencing reality. > > Not sure it was ever much different :-( > >> Your memory does not deceive you, the Ludovico Treatment centre was shot > at Brunel. > > I had a friend who studied there, was about the only thing to be proud of > ;-) > > john > > On 15.03.2011 10:58, John McMaster wrote: >> Thamesmead (other side of the river) and Brunel University AFAIR.... >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> Clockwork is the right word - as in the futuristic settings of >> "Clockwork Orange". The movie was shot not far from the IoD in Canning >> Town, one of the first "modern" developments in the city of London. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >