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Book announcement: coming in May: Londonās Ours! images from the Greater London Council - fourcornersbooks.co.uk/booksā¦ļæ¼
I have an upcoming talk at the London Archives:
thelondonarchives.org/whats-ā¦
Our book, London's Ours! features in Owen Hatherley's recent Tribune article:
tribunemag.co.uk/2026/08/couā¦
Coming next: Talk about the GLC at C20 society...
EVENT: Join C20 and author Hazel Atashroo as she introduces her new book āLondonās Ours! Images From The Greater London Council 1981ā1986ā, in conversation with Rosamund Lily West.
šļø Wed 2 Sep 2026, 6.30pm
š Cowcross St Gallery, London + Online
šļø Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Defā¦
ALT London's Ours! cover - Hazel Atashroo and Fourt Corners Books (2026) STOP | Children poster - Peter Kennard (1983)
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Itās our Birthday! 51 years ago the #BrentRiverPark was opened, creating Luke FitzHerbertās dream of an 8km chain of green space along the #RiverBrent. Now weāre involved in exciting plans to take his vision forward into a new West London Regional Park stretching to the Thames.
ALT The opening of the Brent River Park in 1976. Photo from the BRP archives
Our book on the GLC gets a mention: theguardian.com/commentisfreā¦
Our new book on GLC visual culture, reviewed in @CreativeReview creativereview.co.uk/new-booā¦
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the abolition of the Greater London Council. To mark the occasion comes a new book 'London's Ours! Images from the Greater London Council 1981-1985'. You can read my review here thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/lonā¦ @4CornersBooks
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Londonās Ours! Celebrating the posters, billboards and publicity stunts that put two fingers up to Thatcherism
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Good news: our local skylark meadow, Warren Farm gets nature reserve status following a long community campaign, meaning it will be preserved for the future:
šØ MASSIVE NEWS FOR WARREN FARM šØ
Warren Farm is officially a Local Nature Reserve!!! This is a huge moment for London's nature.
Huge thanks to @BrentRiverPark @ealingcouncil and everyone else who helped make this happen over the past seven years.
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"A continuous area of beautiful and natural surroundings". 12 open spaces linked by a "network of footpaths, along the riverbank, threading between golf courses and playing fields.ā Luke FitzHerbert's dream for the Brent River Park became a reality 50 years ago. Let's celebrate!
ALT Poster for 50th Anniversary of the Brent River Park celebration on 29th June from 12pm to 5pm at Churchfields Recreation Ground.
I couldnāt get enough of the skies, the endless twilight, only the waves and bird calls to break the silence. What a place. Take me back already!
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Today's new post - exploring London Films from the last 100 years at alondoninheritance.com/
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Thanks to ā¦@Feargal_Sharkeyā© for visiting the Brent and highlighting some of our āissuesā, particularly #Misconnections which are blighting Londonās rivers. #swimmableby2034 according to ā¦@MayorofLondonā© Letās work together to sort this out! lbc.co.uk/news/feargal-sharkā¦
No responsibility taken for residential developersā sewage misconnections for YEARS: River Brent is now a public health hazard! Who will fix it?
metro.co.uk/2024/11/18/londoā¦ via @MetroUK
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Environmental disaster as housing developments flush sewage directly into rivers.
mylondon.news/news/north-lonā¦
Back in the archive this week. Found a poster for a GLC-funded Irish cultural festival. There was a Christy Moore gig on the very day I was born. š
We donāt deserve swans:
Itās hard to imagine a more shameful indictment of our sewage crisis than what I witnessed on the River Avon this afternoon.
A flock of swans & ducks feeding & cavorting in a plume of raw sewage, just a few hundred metres from the centre of the genteel City of Bath.
This huge sewage spill entered the river after a short 10 minute rainstorm of average intensity. It is highly unlikely that the circumstances were exceptional and thus this discharge is likely to be a criminal offence.
I (somewhat ironically) spotted this spill on my way to speak to local river activists on the Avon. Iāve encouraged them all to demand that both the @EnvAgency & the local authority @bathnes hold @wessexwater to account for their disgusting & disgraceful actions.
