Another London: Excavating the disenchanted city

(harpers.org)

34 points | by jfil 2 days ago

1 comments

  • TacticalCoder 10 hours ago
    TFA 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