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If they take any action against the skateboarding and dancing coppers we should set up a crowd funding for them, they should be rewarded for top community engagement, not punished.

The frothing outraged Daily Fail reader would implode with rage to see such acts being rewarded by the nation, rather than have them sent to the gallows like they'd hoped.

And they had a mini ramp on the bridge too which is epic win.

Anyone know what Mercedes this is, never seen one before. Like a Morris Traveller on roids.

Dat ass (the car one, its an old Bristol)

Woah!

Beautiful

Baddass

For reading the Guardian, or just for being able to read?

admittedly the bar is low, but labradoodles get under it with ease.

Their mere existence, fucking pointless headless chicken of a thing that's shittyfying the good name of the trusty labrador. They're thick a pig shit and in my experience have a 100% record of being owned by total arseholes, which as they say owners resemble their dogs, makes total sense.

EDIT for above post, I would suddenly be all for self driving Prius's if it would suddenly turn on and run both those fuckers over, reversing back over them to made sure the jobs done right.

Labradoodles and their fucking owners, like Toyota Prius drivers, never encountered one who wasn't a total cunt, they all need drowning.

Hot!

@hudsoncjnr thanks, I'd never heard of it.

@Fox nice find, yep got to be hers. I knew she was local as I've seen her in the local Sainsbury's a few times.

No way, cool info. Wow I wonder if that means the car regularly parked right next to it (I live round the corner too) belongs to Joanna Lumley?



It just doesn't quite look right, though frankly anything parked next to that Aston is going to look weak. It has no badges on it, at first I thought it was a BMW Z1, but then got side on and saw those tell tale door handles, and was like WTF!, that's from a Triumph TR7 isn't it?....Its obviously not an ordinary TR7. DVLA has it listed as a 3.9 litre petrol, so probs an old Rover V8. Joanna has previous with TR7's too.

Argos is hot, but looks like a repost of the one Gaston already posted further up this page, come on ;)

That other one tho, ewwwww, frame looks like a D-lock or saddle bag, do not want, that belongs at the bottom of a canal.

You're half right, the Alpine is indeed on Fulham Rd, the junction with Edith Grove is the next one along.

The Aston looks like its located in Kensington or similar, but no, its actually south of the river, close to Stockwell.....which is to say the car or wheels may have been half inched already.....

I cycled through some of the posh Chelsea parts yesterday like Hans Place and the like, and though it was plain to see every car was a high value item, BMW's, Mercs, Porsche and Rollers and Bentley's abound, it was startling how all together it was just a sea of bland. Black, blue or silver, and really utterly dull and devoid of any character, I was longing to see a bit of rough amongst the supposed diamonds.

...in response to buying a 20 year old Alfa..."yeah that's the kind of common sense I applaud. nice work dude"

I LOL'd, classic line!

My dad had 2 red 124 Special T's back in the day, my mum was lucky to walk away from a crash writing one off at 20 mph going round a 90 degree bend in a country lane head on into a logging truck. I think the other one dissolved in the rain. He loved that car. CSB

I saw this today, undoubtedly a money pit to keep on the road, but goddam this is one great looking car.

Saw this original mint Renault Alpine last week too, stunning looking and sounding little car.

Ha! I can believe there are men out there fascinated with telecoms cabinets, but I assure you I'm not that guy :)

I was simply trying to find the exact location of the 'I fought the law' graffiti from 'the writing on the wall' book published in the 70's. I've been visiting other spots from the book to show how they've changed in the 40+ years since the original photos were taken.

The graffiti is long gone and the only other identifying feature I could see in the original photo was the markings on the telecoms box, so hoped it may help identify the road the original graffiti was on.

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply, I thoroughly enjoyed that tale, though sorry to hear the Cedric was stolen.

And having looked at the pic, yes that matches your original pic for sure, the old grey matter still works fine fella, and the legs are clearly still turning over too, revisiting the same spot 39 years later, good work :)

@Rodolfo thanks that sounds very handy, is it a special feature/extra? I've not really used Google Earth before so just went and had a look, but as @JurekB says I couldn't figure it out. I put it into help and it said 'select view and then select through time' or something but I couldn't even see the 'view' menu....but that could just be me, my technology skills are more 1970's than 2010's.

Thanks for the info and suggestions @Aroogah. I've discovered from some other searches than not only have some buildings gone, some entire streets have been eradicated, so its very possible the building itself is long gone.

As for the exact date of the picture the book doesn't give dates, but the squats with which it is associated was there from 1972-76, the Times article trying to trace info on it was in 1974, so between 72-74.

This one was pretty well known, so I'm confident we'll eventually unearth more on this one, thanks again.

Hows about another one?

This is apparently pretty famous, it inspired the naming of a band of the same name, and has been copied in other locations as recently as 2006. A request was even published in the Times in April 1974 to uncover the meaning, but definitive answers were not forthcoming....maybe its just that cats like plain crisps :)

It seems the phrase was first seen in the kitchen of a series of squats in Grosvenor Rd in Richmond. The phrase became the motto for the squatters and even made it onto their flag, and eventually made it outside to the roundabout in question.

The book just states its in Richmond somewhere, and I have seen mention online that it was maybe near Kew Road and/or near the swimming baths. I'm not familiar with the area, but this is the only possible lead I have so far.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4650385,-0.2998906,3a,75y,50.82h,95.11t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1shuV42k2-KRE9XroHJBxsvg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Again remember over 40 years have passed. There is a door in the wall in the current image that is not in the original, but otherwise its looks pretty similar, the door could easily have been added later. Unlike the previous one I posted, this was there for along time, so I'm more hopeful more people would have seen it, I don't suppose anyone recalls where it was located exactly do you?
@HarmanMogul you weren't over in Richmond in the 70's on your Cedric Clayson were you :)

Any confirmation of the location gratefully received, or any other suggestions welcome :)

Thanks @HarmanMogul, an original photo from around that time great!. I've never heard of Cedric Clayson so thanks for that too. It definitely has the right pattern on the wall. Here is the original again for this page:

I've been over to have a look, St Stephen's Gardens itself just has house fronts and steps, so it must have been at the ends. The eastern end is Chepstow Road, one does not match at all and here is the other one. It is on the end where I normally expect the junction boxes to be.

The two windows don't look recent so I don't think it was that end. Top detective work by @Oliver Schick on identifying the '25' junction box on Chepstow Rd, that really is a good match, but having just 'steetviewed' all of Chepstow Road I can't see anywhere along there that looks like the original photo.

Moving over to the house ends at the western end of St Stephen's Gardens and that is Shrewsbury Rd as Oliver says. Here's one:

That does look promising, it could have been there, but there is no junction box, though as Oliver says this could have been moved. The pavement does look very similar but in @HarmanMogul's original pic and my recent one above, I can't see a manhole/utilities access cover that's in front of the junction box on the original photo. Do you remember approx what year your photo was taken @HarmanMogul? The pavement looks pretty new in your photo, maybe between the original pic and yours, they moved the junction box that maybe meant it didn't need an access cover, so they got rid of that too.

The other side is the one that Oliver linked to, seen again here:

The plaster pattern matches again, but it does look like those windows are new and that a basement has been converted, so it could have been that if that looked different in the past. What makes me think twice about this side is that the road slopes down more on this side and is on an obvious slope unlike the original.

@chez_jay I'd love to be able to say for sure but I'm afraid I can't confirm if either of those is the right answer. Just to add another option, this is the one I had identified. It has a junction box numbered 25, the plaster pattern matches, its on a level road, at the end of a road and its on Faraday Rd, just off Ladbroke Grove, so the right area. Seen here:

So we have 2 junction boxes in the same area numbered 25, that is confusing! And there's some other junction boxes next to it, seen in this other shot.

Note the far junction box appears to have the same manhole/utility cover in front of it as the original photo, but there are no lines on the wall to the left, like the original. I note the junction boxes are different in style too, maybe they changed them all over the years and they have been in slightly different locations along the wall over the years, or perhaps the covers in front of the junction box on the right used to look like the other ones?

Thanks very much for your help everyone, what do you think? I can't say I'm convinced by either, but top work getting that far, I'll report back if I find anything else.

OK great, thanks, fingers crossed you can summon something from the depths of memory.

Funnily enough Joe Strummer is mentioned in the book a few times, and some graffiti of his previous band the 101'ers features at the infamous Albion Free State's Meat Roxy, where they played in about 1974.

I don't fight the law, but like to keep them on their toes ;)

Ha! I was waiting for that, it does sound like I need to get a life dork etc....well, I'm sure all the graffiti will be gone, but I'm visiting the spots of my favourite pics from the book, and trying to photograph them from the same angle today to see what those spots look like now. Its amazing how much has changed, some of it whole streets are gone! And yet some are exactly the same, fascinating stuff....but enough about that, numbering systems on green electrical boxes, how do they work?

I have the book that was funded by the kickstarter :)

And I would ask him if I could, but he's dead unfortunately. I know the pic was taken somewhere around Notting Hill/Ladbroke Grove area. Its over 40 years ago though, so even the green boxes themselves may have been replaced in that time, and possibly the pavement, drain covers, wall paint, kerbs etc..so hunting via streetview is not going to be much use I think.

Which is why I think the junction box id may be my best chance of identifying the exact location.

:)..well the key bit was identifying the numbering system on the green boxes, but if it helps, which I doubt it does, here's the original pic. The graffiti is long gone, but as you can see the box clearly has 25 on it.

Long shot alert, help needed....I am trying to identify a London street from a photograph from the 1970's, and the only identifiable thing in the photo is a green junction box at the end of the road. I think the green boxes are for phone connections for that street, is that correct?

I notice they have numbering on the outside of the boxes, the one I'm concerned with has '25' on it. Most of the ones I recall seeing have only 2 digits, so is the numbering done for each borough or are they grouped together some other way? Does the numbering relate to the exact location/street name, and does anyone know what the numbering system is, or how I can find out? Or is it a secret code for BT employees only? In addition to the large number on the outside I also came across a sticker which has a serial number on it, which is 01744 could this serial number identify the street perhaps?

And final question, has the numbering system on the green boxes stayed the same for the last 40 years or so? So will a green junction box marked '25' in a particular area in the 1970's, be in the same place as one marked '25' today?

Bit of a random one I know, but hoping there's a BT employee or someone else in the know, anyone have any idea? I'd be grateful for any pointers, thanks