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Wandsworth, London Olympus OM2 Ilford HP5 Rodinal 1+25 Wandsworth is my London Borough. It has been Conservative led for the last thirty years, it has the lowest Council tax rate and some of the highest house prices outside the Circle Line. But it is also resolutely inner city in many places and the “town centre” is quite frankly a dump with cheap and unsympathetic sixties development being allowed run down and sliced up by the fast (by London standards) one way system. The lovely old Youngs brewery closed and is crumbling, the factory pub where you could get best Youngs beer straight from the barrel bricked up and closed. It is changing though. There are cranes everywhere, I took a picture of the “P*ecision Tyres” shop two weeks ago and when I passed it again a week ago it was covered in scaffolding and the roof was off. But I worry about what will come in its place. The hoarding outside the new commercial development promises another Clonetown with all the usual chains and no variety. The fabric of the remaining London vernacular brick buildings will no doubt remain. The brewery is to be converted into luxury appartments. And the risk is that it will be sanitised and gentrified. Prices will rise, social and cultural diversity will fall

Wandsworth, London Olympus OM2 Ilford HP5 Rodinal 1+25 Wandsworth is my London Borough. It has been Conservative led for the last thirty years, it has the lowest Council tax rate and some of the highest house prices outside the Circle Line. But it is also resolutely inner city in many places and the “town centre” is quite frankly a dump with cheap and unsympathetic sixties development being allowed run down and sliced up by the fast (by London standards) one way system. The lovely old Youngs brewery closed and is crumbling, the factory pub where you could get best Youngs beer straight from the barrel bricked up and closed. It is changing though. There are cranes everywhere, I took a picture of the “P*ecision Tyres” shop two weeks ago and when I passed it again a week ago it was covered in scaffolding and the roof was off. But I worry about what will come in its place. The hoarding outside the new commercial development promises another Clonetown with all the usual chains and no variety. The fabric of the remaining London vernacular brick buildings will no doubt remain. The brewery is to be converted into luxury appartments. And the risk is that it will be sanitised and gentrified. Prices will rise, social and cultural diversity will fall

Wandsworth, London Olympus OM2 Ilford HP5 Rodinal 1+25 Wandsworth is my London Borough. It has been Conservative led for the last thirty years, it has the lowest Council tax rate and some of the highest house prices outside the Circle Line. But it is also resolutely inner city in many places and the “town centre” is quite frankly a dump with cheap and unsympathetic sixties development being allowed run down and sliced up by the fast (by London standards) one way system. The lovely old Youngs brewery closed and is crumbling, the factory pub where you could get best Youngs beer straight from the barrel bricked up and closed. It is changing though. There are cranes everywhere, I took a picture of the “P*ecision Tyres” shop two weeks ago and when I passed it again a week ago it was covered in scaffolding and the roof was off. But I worry about what will come in its place. The hoarding outside the new commercial development promises another Clonetown with all the usual chains and no variety. The fabric of the remaining London vernacular brick buildings will no doubt remain. The brewery is to be converted into luxury appartments. And the risk is that it will be sanitised and gentrified. Prices will rise, social and cultural diversity will fall

Wandsworth is my London Borough. It has been Conservative led for the last thirty years, it has the lowest Council tax rate and some of the highest house prices outside the Circle Line. But it is also resolutely inner city in many places and the “town centre” is quite frankly a dump with cheap and unsympathetic sixties development being allowed run down and sliced up by the fast (by London standards) one way system. The lovely old Youngs brewery closed and is crumbling, the factory pub where you could get best Youngs beer straight from the barrel bricked up and closed. It is changing though. There are cranes everywhere, I took a picture of the “P*ecision Tyres” shop two weeks ago and when I passed it again a week ago it was covered in scaffolding and the roof was off. But I worry about what will come in its place. The hoarding outside the new commercial development promises another Clonetown with all the usual chains and no variety. The fabric of the remaining London vernacular brick buildings will no doubt remain. The brewery is to be converted into luxury appartments. And the risk is that it will be sanitised and gentrified. Prices will rise, social and cultural diversity will fall

Wandsworth, London Olympus OM2 Ilford HP5 Rodinal 1+25 Wandsworth is my London Borough. It has been Conservative led for the last thirty years, it has the lowest Council tax rate and some of the highest house prices outside the Circle Line. But it is also resolutely inner city in many places and the “town centre” is quite frankly a dump with cheap and unsympathetic sixties development being allowed run down and sliced up by the fast (by London standards) one way system. The lovely old Youngs brewery closed and is crumbling, the factory pub where you could get best Youngs beer straight from the barrel bricked up and closed. It is changing though. There are cranes everywhere, I took a picture of the “P*ecision Tyres” shop two weeks ago and when I passed it again a week ago it was covered in scaffolding and the roof was off. But I worry about what will come in its place. The hoarding outside the new commercial development promises another Clonetown with all the usual chains and no variety. The fabric of the remaining London vernacular brick buildings will no doubt remain. The brewery is to be converted into luxury appartments. And the risk is that it will be sanitised and gentrified. Prices will rise, social and cultural diversity will fall

Wandsworth, London Olympus OM2 Ilford HP5 Rodinal 1+25 Wandsworth is my London Borough. It has been Conservative led for the last thirty years, it has the lowest Council tax rate and some of the highest house prices outside the Circle Line. But it is also resolutely inner city in many places and the “town centre” is quite frankly a dump with cheap and unsympathetic sixties development being allowed run down and sliced up by the fast (by London standards) one way system. The lovely old Youngs brewery closed and is crumbling, the factory pub where you could get best Youngs beer straight from the barrel bricked up and closed. It is changing though. There are cranes everywhere, I took a picture of the “P*ecision Tyres” shop two weeks ago and when I passed it again a week ago it was covered in scaffolding and the roof was off. But I worry about what will come in its place. The hoarding outside the new commercial development promises another Clonetown with all the usual chains and no variety. The fabric of the remaining London vernacular brick buildings will no doubt remain. The brewery is to be converted into luxury appartments. And the risk is that it will be sanitised and gentrified. Prices will rise, social and cultural diversity will fall

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

It would be more efficient to consign the food direct to the bin....... I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and

Brothers? I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities and these are some of my better ones I think (I've posted one or two before but I'm gathering under one roof)

I'm not really a street photographer (I lack the essential courage) but London always offers opportunities This is the only time I've asked a complete stranger to pose. It was two years ago at the height of the Eurozone crisis and Alfonso was part of a tn Spanish diaspora. With no work for him at home he had found an opportunity in London. He hoped that it would be no longer than three years before he could go home. They were tough times. I hope he's made it