A most excellent thread

It's a good question M. A good question.

Yeah, my teen goes there with birthday/Xmas money to splurge on records, t-shirts, pop culture figurines etc... she is just at an age where she might start gravitating to the Berwick St shops and get the pop culture stuff from Forbidden Planet.

Always rammed though, which makes you wonder how it isn’t making enough money.

1 why 2 are 3 we 4 even 5 bothering 6 with 7 this 8 complete and utter 9 farce 10 ?

Very accurate!

As I embark on the final push to finish my book about the East End of London, I’m going to start posting a daily photo from my research trips in this thread… First up, David Bowie on Brick Lane.

Nice. Solid sock selection too

Does this mean you slipper all year round?

Slipper season is upon us

Can’t remember the last time I saw a banknote let alone a hedgehog

Loved Stuart Cosgrove’s books on Detroit 67 and Memphis 68, but Harlem 69 is all over the place.

I'd heard about this place years ago; an ex colleague grew up there, helped build the tunnels. Extraordinary. There's an article linked in the comments, too. Funnily enough at the time they worried it would be unsellable, due to the - um - digging. ;-)

JJ can be a bit of a contrarian but this passes the smell test