hey, thanks for these...definitely more green than that...but a deep, dark, olive green....but green, nonetheless.
I had a couple of interesting urban safaris recently, just around areas I semi knew when I lived in London
Crouch end and Stroud Green and down to Highbury.
Over a million quid for one of those little Victorian 3 bed terraces now.
Great little houses, no doubt, the very kind ordinary people would have bought up until a decade or so ago....very probably with the intention of moving up to a semi with a bigger garden if they had the ambition and were able to in later years.
Now over a million....for a very pleasant, but ordinary little house.
I do enjoy bit of social history on little walks like that....you can see houses that have had the same occupiers since the 60s/70s whatever...looking slightly scruffy... cheek by jowl by ones done up by younger families moving in...nice seeing things move on, but it's all so different now.
A million bloody quid!
I had a walk around Hoxton/Shoreditch not too long ago and you can see how factories have turned into squats have turned into artistst studios have turned into poncey apartments and all that goes with them...interesting stuff, I reckon.
In amongst them, little enclaves of ex-working class housing, now colonised by unaccountably wealthy hipsters. Meh.
I was in hackney/Bethnal green/London fields recently looking at some of the beautiful Victorian villas there...now reclaimed by the rich and done up like the ones that have always been in Holland park and Notting hill. Weird to see, but sensible in many ways...just a couple of miles from the City.
Doesn't just happen in London, of course...I've enjoyed looking at this kind of thing in Manchester/Liverpool/Cardiff/Glasgow in recent years...urban geography, is it? Social history? Dunno..I just like when I've got an hour or 2 on my own...
Now, back to this bloody paint!