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comedy rehearsal for the coming darkness

picture by Leighton Grant BBC NEWS | England | London | Power supply restored after fire Sydenham forum thread (began about ten minutes after the fire started) I slept through all the excitement: the substation that burned is just barely … more…

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slow burn

— trivial, I know, but Jack had to be moved off the top of the page. (via BB)

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smoking ruins

From a thread at sydenham.org.uk — my local discussion forum — with lots of pictures of the Crystal Palace, which stood on Sydenham Hill after it was moved from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition of 1851, until it was … more…

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sparks, hassocks

Sparks, Hassocks, Nov 17 2007 (This is the best of about a dozen shots of the inferno before which I found myself last evening, on the occasion of my one and only female cousin’s fortieth birthday party, which was good … more…

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Brighton West Pier fire

I just turned up a bunch of emails I’d sent to myself years ago, and a link to this picture of Brighton’s West Pier on fire, in March 2003. was among them. I’d noted that I’d got the link from … more…

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