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Old: Drapers Field

Poem by Warsan Shire, there are a few more nearby
https://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk/poetrysigns edit: URL is dead

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Old: House of Fraser (King William St) clock with an owl on the top

Yea, no power tools, no hosepipes. There is water in cistern things, big enough to dunk a bucket like a medieval peasant. I’d be tempted to mow next door, but it’s another plot, so taboo. Ours was like that a year ago, it’s do-able, but it doesn’t look like anyone’s felt up to it this year…

Been picking courgettes and digging up potatoes for a while now, watering is a proper chore

all about the oil?

That’s the main attraction I think, but he does various dried herbs too, it smells really good in there. Fluorescent tubes and other electrical miscellany also.

New: take a lock & a shopping bag, have a chat w/ the proprietor

Old: “Bow Quarter”, the old Bryant & May match factory on Fairfield Road, apparently run by naughty Quakers

New: a life from 1918-11-11 to 2002-09-29; a “grime” star long before Wiley et al

Old: Ümit, or perhaps his son, opening up CINÉ-REAL on Lower Clapton Road

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Old: Cold War Steve, Quaker Street / Wheler Street

I was, had 8 IPv4 addresses and everything. Spent too much time in Global Switch; sad to see that the sculpture of “Man Fighting Blanket” has gone

Edit: found old photo of said sculpture in Streetmap

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Old: a wall, Naval Row; in the background is Global Switch. The building in Will’s picture is called Export Building, which seems uninteresting?

New (edit, since Curlicue had been done 10 years ago); a bridge. Bonus points if you can guess the combination of the mystery loot box.

Old: PW 2020 chewing gum on the Millennium Bridge

New; clue: cycloid

Old: a bridge. Lambeth Road / Sail Street

New: bicycles and a fish—a "slightly batshit playground"

Old: bicycles and a fish, Regents Canal nr York Way

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I have been unwell. Old: Jamilah House and Felix House, University Way, nr Cyprus DLR

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Old: East Ham Jewish Cemetery on Shabbat; Marlow Road