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Thamesmead Arts Festival
Details about the week long arts festival in Thamesmead are slowly emerging on the Trust Thamesmead site. There’s a list of some of the highlights in this PDF. Unfortunately for me they are capitalising on half term and running most … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, events, film
Tagged art, arts, community, events, festival, local, media, peabody, people, thamesmead, thamesmead arts festival, the link, the link thamesmead, trust thamesmead
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Do you want your home to appear in a film?
I saw this poster tacked up on my way home – a film maker has been in the area and wants to use a local home interior for a film. Click the image to see the full size picture for … Continue reading
The Boston Globe, 1970
I found this interesting snippet via Twitter, posted by @heroicproject Click the image to see the full sized version which espouses the merits of what Thamesmead was expected to be back in the early years, and contrasts it to the … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, historical, in the media
Tagged boston globe, building, concrete, historical, housing, infrastructure, media, newspaper, thamesmead, town planning
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In The Grand Manner (part 1)
This, and the subsequent posts in the series, is a copy of an article printed in Country Life, June 19th, 1975. By reproducing it here I hope to bring a bit of history to a wider audience. The ownership and … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, in the media, infrastructure
Tagged clockwork orange, concrete, country life, history, magazine, media, thamesmead, town planning
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Transport – a bridge in Thamesmead?
Thamesmead has been in the news again recently with a lot of noise around the transport links and the reanimated plans for a road bridge. I’ve seen arguments for and against a road bridge and am largely undecided on whether … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, infrastructure
Tagged beckton, bridge, crossrail, gallions reach, garden city, infrastructure, knee hill, media, thamesmead
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Streetz
An enterprising guy with a strong interest in film is working on a piece filmed in Thamesmead, named Streetz. The trailer for the piece is over on Youtube, and also embedded in the fund raising page on Indiegogo, here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/streetz#home … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, film, in the media
Tagged beautiful thing, clockwork orange, filmed in thamesmead, filming location, gang culture, gangs, london, media, misfits, reputation, streetz, thamesmead, video
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Adam Curtis in Thamesmead
There’s an article on rationalist.org where the participants wander around Thamesmead musing on the nature of hope and gloom. http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/4641/fail-better It’s an interesting piece, but a little odd. They begin at Abbey Wood, sensibly enough, but seem to go north … Continue reading
Posted in about the area, external link, in the media
Tagged concrete, conversation, hope, houses, housing, infrastructure, interview, lesnes abbey, magazine, media, shopping centre, thamesmead
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Filmed in Thamesmead
I’ve had an idea for a while that it would be nice to catalogue the ever increasing list of things filmed in Thamesmead. It’s a minor project in itself that requires a reasonable amount of effort which has been off-putting. … Continue reading
Local news reporting: Could do better
There’s a video on Youtube that shows a girl hanging off a tower block in Thamesmead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wJpBpboh4HM If you go and have a look at it on Youtube you can see that it was uploaded seven years ago. Why, then, … Continue reading
Posted in external link, in the media, thamesmead people
Tagged media, news shopper, thamesmead, video
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Another view
When I write here, I mostly talk about the buildings closest to me – the old style concrete blocks that are pretty much synonymous with the area, largely because they’re the aspect that give the area its reputation: The concrete … Continue reading
Posted in about the area
Tagged blog, concrete buildings, gallions reach, houses, lesnes abbey, media, nature, thamesmead, thamesmead north, thamesmead south, thamesmead town centre
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