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balding13 Great Old One Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Total posts: 190 Gender: Male |
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I also lived in various parts of London, finishing up in E17. This link told me things I didn't know about the church there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Clapton
What it doesn't say is that it was derelict for decades and according to a friend, who grew up in the area in the forties, known as being a sinister haunt of Aleister Crowley. I visited it a few years ago and was bemused by the animal imagery outside it and the fact that they were advertising spiritual services for animals! |
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| James_H2 Great Old One Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Total posts: 709 Location: Hackney! Gender: Male |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 19-05-2012 13:20 Post subject: |
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| Looks like a big black bin bag being blown along. |
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| titch Great Old One Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Total posts: 1202 Location: london uk Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 19-05-2012 13:38 Post subject: |
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| Certainly doesn't look much like an animal to me. |
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| Cochise Great Old One Joined: 17 Jun 2011 Total posts: 1104 Location: Gwynedd, Wales Age: 58 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-05-2012 08:29 Post subject: |
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It may have learned to _look_ like a black bin liner being blown along? Would save it being hunted to extinction  |
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| James_H2 Great Old One Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Total posts: 709 Location: Hackney! Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-05-2012 10:09 Post subject: |
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| Front page of the Hackney Gazette last week! I even bought a copy. It looks like a dog to me? |
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| ramonmercado Psycho Punk
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| Posted: 24-05-2012 10:10 Post subject: |
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| Cochise wrote: | | It may have learned to _look_ like a black bin liner being blown along? Would save it being hunted to extinction |
Ah, remember Black Bag from Viz? |
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| cherrybomb Skating the thin crust
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| Posted: 24-05-2012 15:53 Post subject: |
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I've really enjoyed this thread, it's helped my working day pass much quicker 
Spookdaddy, there is a famous house known as the voodoo house or the painted house: http://www.flickr.com/photos/skitster/1413719507/
However, I remember seeing a small terraced house down East Ham way, with all the windows painted with black and white "symbols". My friends claimed that it was a voodoo house and not to look at it. I just thought it was a squat or maybe a drug den. I wish I'd taken more interest in it, but my mates at the time took the whole voodoo thing very seriously. One of my best mates' parents wouldn't let her date a family friend of their's because "he did voodoo" (She was 24 at the time  ) I'm not sure if it was just an over zealous baptist family not wanting to let go of their daughter, or something more Fortean!
As for the psychogeography, it really is a fascinating subject. More please!!  |
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| Spookdaddy Cuckoo Joined: 24 May 2006 Total posts: 3924 Location: Midwich Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 24-05-2012 22:00 Post subject: |
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Funnily enough, I know that place - an ex lives nearby - but it's not the one I was thinking of, which is East rather than South.
| Quote: | | ...However, I remember seeing a small terraced house down East Ham way, with all the windows painted with black and white "symbols"... |
This description has more in common with the place, although it wasn't a particularly small house (if my memory is correct).
I've just had a quick saunter around the old manor via the miracle of Google Street View and I'm now pretty sure that the house I was thinking of is one of those which is in the process of being gentrified (or was when the images were recorded) on the east side of Campbell Road (which joins the south side of Bow road, just before Bow Church station). |
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| James_H2 Great Old One Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Total posts: 709 Location: Hackney! Gender: Male |
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