Iain Sinclair on “London: City Of Disappearances” pt1
Inteview in which the author and psychogeographer strolls though Abney Park cemetary in Stoke Newington. …
Duration : 0:7:3
Ashley Slater
Ashley sang compositions from his two solo albums – “Big Lounge” and “Cellophane”. And yet some from Freak Power stuff. He`s a true performer and has amazing voice.
Duration : 0:3:0
Drink in the Cittie of Yorke
Your author hasn’t mentioned a Sam Smiths pub for some time, so let’s end the drought with a look at the Cittie of Yorke, on High Holborn, a Grade II listed inn on a site that dates back to 1430.
The current pub was largely rebuilt in the 1920s but it is still a warren of different rooms and alcove and the cellar bar is particularly atmospheric, though the high ceilinged main bar, known as the Henekey’s long bar, is well worth a look.
The pub is listed in CAMRA’s national inventory of historic pub interiors and features include a late-Georgian or Regency era metal stove and Victorian cubicles, which we are told were were originally used by lawyers in consultation with clients (and probably still are from time to time).
For more on the Cittie of York, see here.
^Picture by Matthew Black^
Mosque in the Sun
I remember the Regent’s Park Mosque being built in the seventies, the first in London. Fascinatingly, it was almost eighty years in the arriving. From wht it feels like, the sun has been away that long, too.
(isn’t it odd how the days when blogger screws up the posting coincide with those I am too busy to check up?)
Visit the Markfield Beam Engine
As mentioned last Sunday, it is time to have a look at the Markfield Beam Engine and Museum, which is open today as part of regular openings on the second Sunday of each month. The engine, in Markfield Park, Harringey was once used to move sewage from Tottenham into the London system for treatment at the Beckton sewage works. 
The 100 horsepower beam pumping engine, built in 1886 by Wood Brothers, is housed in an original Grade II listed Engine House in the former sewage treatment works for Tottenham which have now become part of Markfield Park. The Engine operated from 1886 until 1905 continuously, and carried on service on standby operation until 1964 when sewers were diverted to the extended East Middlesex Works at Deephams. The engine has recently been restored and can be seen operating under steam on designated days. Meanwhile, the museum is open on the second Sunday of each month from 11am until 4pm. For more information, see http://www.mbeam.org/
Visit St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe
There has been a church on the site of St Mary’s, Rotherhithe for around 1,000 years and the current building was created in 1716 to replace the 12th century building which stood on the site.
Designed by John James, an associate of Sir Christopher Wren, it has associations with the maritime history of Britain, and also the ‘Mayflower’, the boat on which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America, which departed from nearby. It also has links to the South Pacific as Prince Lee Boo of Pelau, a Pacific Island prince who arrived in 1784 and is buried in the churchyard.
The history of the place is fascinating and there is too much detail to recall here, so for more information, see http://www.stmaryrotherhithe.org/
Trace the source of the 1854 Cholera Epidemic
Many readers will be aware of this one, but for anyone who is not, the Broad Street Pump is famous as the source of the 1854 outbreak of cholera in Soho, but this was only ever discovered thanks to the work of one man, Dr John Snow.
Residents were stumped as to what was causing the illness and it was only when Dr Snow mapped the addresses of the sick that he noticed that most of those who had been struck by the disease had a unifying characteristic – their nearest accessible water source was the pump located at the junction of Broad Street, now Broadwick Street, and Cambridge Street, now Lexington Street, close to the rear wall of what is now a Sam Smiths pub called the John Snow.
Snow subsequently managed to persuade those responsible to take the handle off the pump, and this prevented infected water from being used. Later on, it was discovered that the spring below had been contaminated with sewage. A replica pump has since been installed nearby (see above) to commemorate this. He also managed to use statistics to show the connection between the quality of the source of water and cholera cases, demonstrating that the Southwark and Vauxhall Waterworks Company was using water from a sewage-polluted section of the Thames and delivering it to homes with an increased incidence of cholera.
For more on Dr John Snow, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow_(physician)
^Picture by Matt Biddulph^
Electrosoul System (ft. Ashley Slater) – Sunshine
Taken off “The Future Sound Of Russia”
Duration : 0:5:48
Vamp zenekar – Freak Power Rush
Vamp zenekar – Freak Power Rush
Egy esztergomi koncert…
Duration : 0:3:59
BBC: Peter Ackroyd “London”
BBC: Peter Ackroyd on London.
“London” is a 2004 three-part BBC history documentary series about the history of London, presented by Peter Ackroyd. The series made a visual trope of, as Ackroyd walked around London or was sitting in his study, the persons of famous and anonymous historical figures would fade in and out and act their testimonies.
Duration : 0:1:35