This disturbing film, a psychodrama brimming with sexual tension and set in Portobello market is about as far away as it can be to the happier romance of the 1999 #NottingHill film. The backdrop of Portobello road in 1963 is fabulous. player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc…
no 259 Portobello Road in the sixties.
Portobello Rd in 1982
(Michael Rogge Video)
The market in the late seventies, early eighties.
(Watch this Kino Archive film)
Notting Hill Carnival in the late seventies with a brief glimpse of Portobello Road. (From Vestry House Museum/ London Screen Archives) You can see all the film here londonsscreenarchives.org.uk/title/20556/
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
Happy Easter! Over a 100 years ago this is how you might have celebrated - sending a card featuring giant eggs and women. Across Europe this was a thing. With slight differences between countries. First off the much loved hatching woman (A thread)
In Germany the hatching woman was normally less erotic and more upright - more like a serving hatch or kiosk. ‘Frohe Ostern! kann ich Ihnen helfen?’
Meanwhile In France there’s some weird Easter shit going on. First the giant egg with a scary woman’s face saying PÂQUES!
The perfect parade of shops in Harlesden, circa 1900. And how it is today. I’ve been thinking about what we’ve lost from our high streets, our local communities and why we often choose to shop online. Here’s a thread but I really want to hear what you all think and feel about it.
To breathe life back into local high streets, councils must place a higher value on how they look, how they invite us to walk, linger and spend money. Art critic Ruskin talked about the ‘bounding line’, the continuation of an edge that the eye follows on the entire structure.
How come it’s been ok for decades now to cover our retail streets in satellite dishes, cables and plastic panels? Signage that bares no relationship visually with the building it sits on? Who wants to linger here?
The extraordinary ornate structures in the White City exhibitions drew millions of people to visit in the early twentieth century. So how were they built? Read on...
These White City attractions structures were made from white washed fibrous plaster. Specialist builders draped lengths of plaster-soaked cloth over wire, wood and metal frames. These pictures show that process in Shepherds Bush in 1908.
They were able to fairly cheaply and quickly construct a waterproof White city of exotic palaces, pavilions, fountains ⛲️ and statues.