|
|
Post by helrunar on Jul 30, 2022 17:41:16 GMT
Those look as if they've been repurposed from old supermarket cold storage cabinets. Nice paint job on a couple of those.
Steve
|
|
|
|
Post by andydecker on Jul 30, 2022 18:08:18 GMT
Those look as if they've been repurposed from old supermarket cold storage cabinets. Nice paint job on a couple of those. Steve They are pretty inventive. No.1 is an old public telephone box. |
|
|
|
Post by dem on Jul 31, 2022 11:36:42 GMT
One of the better initiatives of the community. They're lovely. Disused telephone kiosks have been revamped as LFL's over here, too. Ghost watch update;  © Marion Bondage Image LibraryStatues of Charity children on site of St. John's Old School, Scandrett St., Wapping. Local legend has it that they climb down from their plinths after dark to garrotte lone joggers in the churchyard opposite. |
|
|
|
Post by helrunar on Jul 31, 2022 15:02:15 GMT
I love the idea of ghostly Charity Children strangling late night park visitors. I'd want to read that story.
H.
|
|
|
|
Post by andydecker on Aug 2, 2022 16:28:12 GMT
Here are some snapshots from today.   This is front and back from a case in downtown. A bit aenemic.  This is quite new. It is in a mall, the space used to be a nail studio if I remember correctly.
|
|
|
|
Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 2, 2022 19:03:24 GMT
Here are some snapshots from today. This is front and back from a case in downtown. A bit aenemic. This is quite new. It is in a mall, the space used to be a nail studio if I remember correctly.
Those things need to be bigger. Suppose somebody wanted to get rid of Arno Schmidt's ZETTEL'S TRAUM, only to find it will not fit in there. |
|
|
|
Post by jamesdoig on Aug 2, 2022 21:27:10 GMT
Here are some snapshots from today. This is front and back from a case in downtown. A bit aenemic. This is quite new. It is in a mall, the space used to be a nail studio if I remember correctly.
These are a lot more sophisticated than the ones I've seen around here, which look like something a very poor carpenter made. |
|
|
|
Post by dem on Aug 11, 2022 17:15:53 GMT
Thanks for sharing these, Andreas. Disused telephone boxes seem particularly popular with the LFL folk and I'm glad of it. Rather such cultural icons be put to a new public service than lost for good. I love the idea of ghostly Charity Children strangling late night park visitors. I'd love to oblige, hel, really I would, but .... classified information. Note public benches are so positioned that your back is to the statues at all times to prevent your seeing what they're getting up to. When the churchyard was bombed during WWII, the surviving memorials were relocated to peaceful corners of the churchyard. A black plaque on wall of Turner's Old Star commemorates a "Site of witchcraft, 1658." It states that Lydia Rogers was "Found guilty of allowing the devil to draw blood from her hand to form an evil pact. Confessed her crimes to a minister." There is some doubt whether this is the precise spot Lydia was taken, though, Wapping being a small place, it can safely be claimed that we're in the right vicinity. The pub takes its name from the romantic painter and watercolorist Joseph Turner (1775-1851). A second wall plaque reads in part; " ... Turner was exceptionally secretive, especially over women. From the age of twenty-five he was to keep several mistresses, who were to bear him four illegitimate children. Although he never married, women always played an important part of Turner's life. His vigorously sensual side was to emerge in the copious quantities of erotic drawings discovered amongst the Turner bequest on his death. These were supposedly executed during weekends of drunken debauchery amid the dockside taverns of Wapping .... When Turner inherited two cottages in the dockland area of Wapping, he converted them into a tavern and installed Mrs. Booth as proprietor. He named the tavern the 'Old Star'. To maintain secrecy during their life together, Turner adopted her surname. This combined with his five-foot height and portly physique was to earn him the nickname 'Puggy Booth'."  ... and then there was last October in the grove on Vaughan Way, when I was jumped by the ghost of the murder vicar of Ratcliffe Wharf ... .... And that's not the worst of it |
|
|
|
Post by helrunar on Aug 11, 2022 18:09:52 GMT
Brilliant photos. Of course one's back is always to those innocent little... children. Shiver.
The Protectorate years seem to have been vigorous ones for the Witchcraft hysteria.
I was unfamiliar with Turner's uxorious ways. Puggy Booth seems like the perfect name for the old chappie.
H.
|
|
|
|
Post by dem on Sept 24, 2022 18:15:01 GMT
Via Little Free Library today. Thank you to whoever donated! Paul Levitz [ed.] - The Little Book of Batman (Taschen, 2015)  |  "] |
Warum lieben wur Batman
Pourquoi aimons-nous Batman?
The Golden Age: 1939-1956
The Silver Age: 1956-1970
The Bronze Age: 1970-1984
The Dark Age: 1984-1998
The Modern Age: 1998-2010
Credits
Acknowledgements Frank Bez: Andy Warhol & Nico, Esquire, Aug. 1966. |
|
|
|
Post by andydecker on Sept 25, 2022 19:14:01 GMT
This will be a nice book. I never saw it, but those Taschen productions are well done. Levitz was the Publisher of DC Comics for a time.
It is always interesting to see how Batman changed in the many decades of his existence. It is such a huge difference from the 50s and especially 60s version to the grim Dark Knight. Also it shows how the art progressed, from the simple story telling to the often overwrought illustrations of today.
|
|
|
|
Post by dem on Sept 27, 2022 18:34:55 GMT
This will be a nice book. I never saw it, but those Taschen productions are well done. Levitz was the Publisher of DC Comics for a time. It's beautifully done, compact in comparison to other Taschen's to come my way. Instead of restricting himself to just the comics, Levitz tells the story in news snippets, film & TV stills, bubblegum cards, colour strips and panels. Even as someone who neither knows nor cares much about superhero comics & movies, this book appeals to me. |
|
|
|
Post by Michael Connolly on Sept 28, 2022 6:14:11 GMT
This will be a nice book. I never saw it, but those Taschen productions are well done. Levitz was the Publisher of DC Comics for a time. It's beautifully done, compact in comparison to other Taschen's to come my way. Instead of restricting himself to just the comics, Levitz tells the story in news snippets, film & TV stills, bubblegum cards, colour strips and panels. Even as someone who neither knows nor cares much about superhero comics & movies, this book appeals to me. Damn. While I prefer books with a maximum of text, I have to buy a copy of this. |
|
inspiredlamb
Crab On The Rampage
Feeling grateful for the reception...
Posts: 43 
|
Post by inspiredlamb on Oct 5, 2022 15:23:19 GMT
I've seen these things all over the US. There's one on the boardwalk here in Long Beach, NY, which seems to have a massive turnaround. Great idea.
|
|
|
|
Post by dem on Nov 27, 2022 18:41:24 GMT
Wapping Old Stairs, 7.15 am this morning (Saturday) Photo's: Marion Bondage Andreas, there's a commemorative blue plaque on wall of St John's Churchyard directly opposite The Town of Ramsgate: Will try drag Bride of Dem along at later date to attempt a decent shot of it. Extraordinary. Thank you.
Is this open to public? Looks really dangerous. I like the idea of the plaque. Seems like Rainsborough was quite a personality. Like someone who could be useful today.
These stairs reminds me of a scene in Broken Boy by Blackburn. Can't remember which one these was, but I think they were like that.
Here you are, Andreas. Sorry for the delay. Chrissie took these on Thursday morning.   Bride of Dem. Thomas Rainsborough plaque in park known locally as 'the Graveyard.'  Bride of Dem. The Graveyard, Wapping. |
|
