Watch a three-year timelapse video of Blackfriars station being built
Bloody builders always sat around doing nothing.
Via @jamesglavin
22 Feb 2012
Polar bears and tigers in City Hall
Who knew that the Met has a wildlife crimes unit? Here’s a short video on how the World Society for the Protection of Animals and the Met are fighting for London’s bears and tigers, wherever they may live.
20 Feb 2012
12 Feb 2012
Singing about sleeping rough around Victoria Station
The charity for homeless persons, Broadway, contributed to this music video supposedly inspired by an unknown homeless man who was overheard one day singing the opening hook.
09 Feb 2012
Clapton Orient - when footballers were proper heroes
Here’s a video of Clapton Orient, the ancestors of Leyton Orient, playing the last match of the 1914/15 season.
At the end of the game (Clapton Orient 2-0 Leicester Fosse) there was a farewell parade, because 41 players and staff were heading off to join the Footballers Battalion. Three players died at the Somme.
Source: BFI YouTube channel
08 Feb 2012
Too Much Too Young: Bengali Backlash in Somers Town
This video is a slice of 1997, directed by Arun Kumar for Channel 4 back in the day. It follows some young Bengali boys living on the Somers Town estate in Camden and the racial abuse that follows after the murder of another boy on the area.
Our pal Zuber, publisher of Footy Matters and a proud resident of Somers Town, suggested today’s video.
07 Feb 2012
Camden installs scary robo-voice to chase away residents from their garden
The Big Smoke has published a cracker of a story. In the communal gardens of Walker House, Camden Council has installed a camera that, in best Robocop fashion, barks out ‘Stop. This is a restricted area and your photograph is being taken. It will be sent for processing if you do not leave the area now.’
Forget about the why Camden would want to drive people away from their garden, the real question is where Camden will find a film processor in this day and age—otherwise, we would have to assume that the photo is digital and they are lying about it.
Source: The Big Smoke Who the hell do Camden Council think they are?
06 Feb 2012
Watch this interview with 16 year-old Wimbledon start-up kid
TechCrunch has interviewed the 16 year-old Wimbledon kid that has snagged $300,000 from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing for his start-up. The start-up itself does something boring – summarising text into small briefs – but the guy is unbelievably self-possessed.
03 Feb 2012
Boris Johnson ambushed outside City Hall by Bermondsey Village Action Group
SE 1 explains what’s going on here.
Mr Johnson, who was in the park for a photo opportunity with Conservative colleagues, spent more than seven minutes talking to activists opposed to the demolition of the South Eastern Railway building in Tooley Street and the flank wall of the terminus roof on the St Thomas Street side of the station.
02 Feb 2012
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