The abandoned ground of Leyton F.C once one of London's oldest football clubs (w/ crowd sounds from
@ClaptonCFC
) - from my walk along the Dagenham Brook
What a fantastic evening at
@Hatchards
chatting to Iain Sinclair about my new book Welcome to New London & previewing Iain’s forthcoming publication Pariah Genius
Publication Day! The follow up to This Other London is finally here. Available where you usually buy your books. There are copies at Newham Bookshop, Wanstead Bookshop, Phlox (soon), Waterstones, Foyles, Blackwells, and Amazon.
Great to go on
@bbc5live
yesterday morning to talk about the history of Whitehall and my book Welcome to New London. You can listen again here from 48 mins
Why are motorised bikes allowed to use cycle paths like this where they hurtle past at speed with their wide tyres right beside pedestrians & particularly young children
@MayorofLondon
? Vehicles with a motor belong on the road
New video - I was very excited about this walk: prehistoric finds on Wanstead Flats, a hidden river revealed and medieval shrine tucked away behind the everyday
Magical walk for you this week picking up the trail of the City of London Churches up to Smithfield with St Bartholomew the Great, William Wallace and John Rogers the Martyr
Fantastic to meet the wonderful
@Ben_Aaronovitch
last night at
@TheWansteadtap
for a celebration of the 10th anniversary of his brilliant Rivers of London novels
Fantastic to screen my Shooters Hill film at an event to celebrate publication of Steve Moore’s Selene with Alan Moore,
@johnhiggs
Andrew O’Neill and Mark Pilkington
A real pleasure and an honour to make this video of Iain Sinclair's recent exhibition at Swedenborg House, partly a re-staging of a 1974 exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery that became hugely influential