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Lawrence's Picture Page |
Hello there, and welcome to this, my
picture page. As you've probably
noticed,
there's little to none of the flash trimmings you usually find on
your
average website, but you'll find various pics (along with a brief
narrative
accompanying them) that I've taken at various places in and
around
London during the last few years or so. Here's a list of items
you'll
find here for you to peek at on the site:
Urban
Green Fair In Brockwell Park - Late summer goings on
down in Brixton, 'Sarf' London (
pics. On site - 30/04/08).
Heartssong Takes Uxbridge - An up-and-coming folk duo begin to
take bold steps toward world domination (
pics. On site - 30/04/08).
MI7
1st Anniversary Bash - A top night of music and
partying in Tottenham, N. London (on site - 14/12/06).
Martha
Tilston At The Scala - A lovely evening of whimsical
folksiness down in deepest King's Cross (on site - 07/12/06).
The
Dears At The Astoria - Superior indie from Canada alongside
supporting alt-rock legends The House Of House (on site - 07/12/06).
Big
Green Gathering - Photos taken at one of the best festivals that
I've
been to, deep in the heart of Wiltshire and Somerset (on site - 09/12/05).
Bonfire
Night
Party at St. George's - An evening of spontaneous
activities
down in
Tufnell Park, N.London (on site - 29/10/05).
Open
Mike Night at St. George's - A quality
night's worth of
alternative entertainment in a (formerly) squatted church
down in Tufnell Park, N. London (on site - 16/10/05).
The
Shock of the Nouveau - Early-80's nostalgia
night down in Camden (on site - 29/09/05)
'Make
Love, Not War' at St. George's - Music & poetry
in a squatted church in Tufnell Park (on
site - 28/09/05)
Rejuvenation
Night at St. George's - Some snaps I took with
a badly sprained ankle + walking stick (on site -28/09/05)
Small World Spring Gathering
- More goings-on
down Headcorn way in May '05 (on site - 10/07/05).
MoMo
at Ocean - Top-notch middle-eastern sounds in an old
library-turned music venue in Hackney (on site - 10/07/05).
Stonehenge Summer Solstice - More than a few (I hope)
mildly iconic pics taken by yours truly whilst in
Wiltshire (on site - 30/06/05).
Fruitstock 2004 - Sun, samba, ice cream vans covered in grass,
mild debauchery in a dance tent. Some of the things I saw and
did one Sunday in Regent's Park (on site - 18/10/04).
Kingston Green Fair - Pics of a v.lovely Bank Holiday festy to
be found at a picturesque spot of London (on site - 16/10/04).
Small
World Easter Extravaganza - Music, juggling, clowns
and 'nuff ravers contributing to a fun night out at a
squat party in Hackney, E.London (on site - 15/10/04).
Small World Summer Festival - Various goings on at a
lovely event held in Headcorn, Kent (on site - 15/10/04).
'Reclaim The Future' - Various alternative goings-on
in North & South London (on site - 21/02/03).
Brighton
Peace Festival - Performances to brighten up a grey
Sunday spent down on the South Coast (on site - 21/02/03).
Temporary
Autonomous Art - Art, experimental films, poetry and
music
in abandoned buildings in Central London (on site - 11/12/02).
'Sacredelic
Elevation' - Photos I took at a rave in an old church
that was squatted at in the time in Swiss Cottage, N.W. London, by the
I.D. Spiral
crew, amongst others, back in May '01 (on site - 3/11/02).
"What
Jubilee?" - Photos that I took down in Brighton on a
hot
Sunday in June '02, while attempting to flee all of the
nonsense
surrounding the "greatest Bank Holiday
weekend
in history" - yawn! (on site - 3/11/02).
'The
Multidimensional Galactic Activation' - Rave, dance,
painting,
meditation (and walking up far too many flights
of
stairs than I'd want to know!) in some vacant office
building
near London Bridge, from Saturday night to
Sunday morning in mid-Feb '02 (on site -
24/03/02).
The
'Sunday Mellow-Out' at Subterania - Pics of some top-notch
alternative
cabaret over in Labroke Grove (on site - 15/09/02).
Post 'Mellow-Out' Rave Bonfire - Photos taken during the wee small
hours at a rave off the Lea Bridge Road v.early (too early, looking
back!)
on Bank Holiday Monday during Easter '02 (on site - 15/09/02).
'Come
Down & Meet The Folks' - Good rockin' (plus a guest
appearance by an early-80's pop icon) down at 'The Golden
Lion'
in
Camden, N.London just before Xmas '01 (on site - 3/02/02).
Anti-War
Protest In Trafalgar Square - Pics I took when
considerably more than 15,000 demonstrators voiced
their
resistance in the centre of London against the so-called "war
against terrorism" carried out "not in my name" (on
site - 03/12/01).
Kilburn
Festival - Dub, folky trance and belly dancing. Just
a few
of the delights I found somewhere in N.W. London
one
Sunday in July '01 (on site - 03/12/01).
'The
Festy With No Name' - Pics I took at an event that I only
just
found
out about at v.short notice, down on London Fields,
Hackney, one Saturday evening in May '01 (on site
- 03/12/01).
A
Mudfest On Brockwell Park - Rain, mud, music, bumping
into
some
folks I know and other things you do down
in
Brixton, South London, June '01 (on site -
21/10/01).
Brockwell Park Cannabis Rally 2002 - Good music, quirky
dancing,
clocking familiar faces and seeing a "spliffy fairy"
walking
around the park on stilts. A selection of pics of
the things I saw and did over in Brixton,
S.London
back in May '02 (on site - 15/09/02).
Echobelly
At ULU - Some pics I took of an underrated
(but
much appreciated) indie band in concert at the
University Of London Union (on site - 21/10/01).
Critical
Mass - Various pics taken at the Central London
CM
cycle demo on the last Friday of the month.
Festival
of Global Rights - Pics of a friend and stuff at a free
festy
down at Hackney Marshes, East London, July '98.
Reclaim
The Streets! - Some of the events I witnessed on June
18th,
1999 when London's financial centre was brought to a
standstill,
and the cops were made to look v.silly (on
site - 14/11/99).
"The
Charlie Dimmock Experience" - Pics of May Day 2000's
"guerilla
gardening", and other things down on and around
Parliament
Square with Reclaim The Streets (on site - 27/12/00).
"(Mild)
Panic On The Streets Of London" - Pics that
were taken during the MayDay 2001
anti-capitalist
demos, when London's streets were
turned into a giant
Monopoly
board for the day (on site - 31/05/01).
"The
Den Of Enlightenment" - Performance, raving, poetry,
plus a
little bit of decadence thrown in for good measure.
A few
snaps I got at an event I was at down in
Camberwell,
S.London (on site - 31/05/01).
"Hubble
Bubble in Highbury" - Belly dancers, trapeze
artists
and
other performers at the Union Chapel
in
Islington, London (on site - 21/10/01).
Millennium
Eve Party at The Swanfleet Centre
- Pics
taken at a lovely do I was
invited to by a
good
friend of mine (on site - 23/01/01).
Save
Our World Festival - Pictures I took of the things I
saw in
Brockwell Park, Brixton, S.London one lovely
sunny
Sunday in June '00. (on site - 20/08/00).
Chalton
Street Festival - Pics taken at short notice
down at
a festy down Euston way one balmy Saturday
evening
in July '00 (on site - 08/10/00).
Hackney
Volcano - Music, colour, dancing, and various other
things
happening on Hackney Marshes, E.London (Four
pages of
pics
fron the 2001 event just added. On site - 17/10/01).
The
Alernative Queen Mother's Birthday Bash - Mildly treasonous
pics
taken during an event staged down Hackney, E.London as an
alternative
to the celebrations for the "nation's favourite granny"
finally
hitting her ton on August 4th '00 (on site - 20/08/00).
Return
To The Source - A few pics taken back in October '00
at a
popular trance/hardcore rave held every now and then at the
Brixton
Academy, down in S.London (on site - 18/11/00).
Mad
Pride! Festival - Pogoing, good-humoured pandemonium
and v.
loud music! Pictures of the things I saw in Clissold Park,
Stoke
Newington on July 15th '00 (on site - 25/07/00).
Charteris
Road Street Festival - A poignant evening spent at a local
festival
in my soon-to-be old neighbourhood (on site - 14/11/99).
"Alien
Invasion at Lewis Carroll Library" - Photos I took of a
craft
session at the kids' library that I work at part-time
back in
June '99 (on site - 01/05/00)
'Wild
Things' Craft Session - Some pictures that I took at the first
of numerous crafts and storytelling sessions that happened at Lewis
Carroll
Children's Library in Islington, North London on Thursday
afternoons
during the summer of '99 (on site - 31/05/01).
Reading
Safari Prizegiving - Pics taken at the Lewis Carroll
Children's
Library in Islington, North London, when prizes
were
handed out to the best young readers in the
neighbourhood
(on site - 22/11/99).
Easter
Egg-travaganza at Lewis Carroll Library - More
photos
I took
of another craft session. This one
occurred
on Maundy Thursday '00 (on site -
17/05/00).
Olympic
Team Quiz - Some pictures taken late in July '00 during
the
first
of the holiday events held at Lewis Carroll library that
were
part of
the 'Summer Reading Relay' (on site - 07/11/00).
Olympic
Treasure Hunt - More pictures taken early in August '00
during
the second of the holiday events occurring at Lewis Carroll
library,
as part of the 'Summer Reading Relay' (on site - 27/12/00).
Health
& Safety Session for Parents & Children - Some snaps taken
when
tips & pointers (plus demonstrations) were given to local mums
and
their toddlers concerning what to do, in an emergency, by a former
St.
John Ambulance worker who came to Lewis Carroll library
one
Thursday morning. (on site - 18/11/00).
Thursday
Morning Under-3s Session - A few lovely snaps I took
of some
neighborhood mums and their toddlers when a local
play
worker came to Lewis Carroll library. (on site -
07/11/00).
Friday
Morning Under-5s Session - Some more snaps I took
of some
local toddlers one wet Friday in September
during the regular storytelling session held at
Lewis Carroll library. (on site - 07/11/00).
'Summer
Reading Relay' Photo Roll-Call of Honour - Pictures
of
nearly all the kids who completed the annual
reading
challenge,
held between July to September at Lewis
Carroll
library. (on site - 27/12/00).
Halloween
Craft Session - More delightful snaps, taken
at a
hastily arranged half-term craft session at Lewis Carroll
library
just in time for the end of October '00. (on site - 14/01/01).
Monday
Storytelling Session with Blessed Sacrament (Year 2)
- Some
delightful pictures of children from one of the local
primary
schools during one of their weekly sessions at
Lewis
Carroll library. (on site - 27/12/00).
Christmas
Craft Session At Lewis Carroll Library - Festive
goings-on
as local children made cards and decorations
to put
on the library Xmas tree (on site - 14/01/01).
Festival
Of The Dispossessed - Music, performance,
art
and
film at
a disused lido in Hackney,
East
London, August '98 (on site - 23/09/98).
Clapham
Free Ganja Festival - Music, drumming,
poetry
and other things down Clapham Common,
South
London, May '99 (on site - 29/05/99).
Brockwell
Park Free Festival - More music, seeing old faces and
other
things you do on a sunny evening down in the largest
park in
Brixton, South London, May '00 (on site - 31/05/00).
Fonthill
Road Carnival & Hackney Culture Festival - A sexy samba
beat in the neighbourhood to brighten up a warm autumn evening,
plus
carnival colour in Hackney the next day (on site - 28/04/99).
Islington
International Festival - Music, performance and dancing
in
Islington, N.London's annual summer event (on site - 22/01/00).
Jagannath
Ratha Yatra - A Hare Krishna event that occurred
in
Battersea
Park, S.London, August '98 (on site - 23/09/98).
Notting
Hill Carnival - Enjoying myself at Europe's
largest
free annual street festival (on site - 22/03/01).
Morrissey
at the Forum - Pics of the bloke with the
quiff from Whalley
Range
on the first of four
nights in N.W. London (on site - 5/12/99).
Partial
Eclipse On Hampstead Heath - Pics of one of nature's
great
natural phenomena (when the clouds don't spoil the
view!) taken in & around one of N.W.
London's
best-loved open spaces (on site - 15/04/00).
Miscellaneous
- Pics that I couldn't classify and contributions
(two
more pages of
pics added
on-site - 08/10/00).
Links - An
updated, but incomplete list of
favourite
sites for you to take a peek at.
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site or contributions, feel
free to email me at this address: pitonheights77@hotmail.com
or....
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