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annicariad says:

I like this, it has a surreal feel to it, and is a little bit sinister too! Spooky!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Monkey Magic says:

It's killing me it's so familiar but I still don't know it.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

marese says:

Clink street?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

hotdiamond5 says:

Interesting colours and brickwork
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Fnarf says:

It's not the street that comes out from under Charing Cross station, is it? Villiers Street? Oh, I shouldn't even be playing.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Feather says:

Is it near the Barbican? near Silk Street?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

hddod says:

Is it along the South Bank -- under Blackfriars bridge?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Mags says:

I'm going with Upper Marsh Street, going under the Waterloo railway bridge.

--
Seen in Guess Where London? (?)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Monkey Magic says:

yup - I'm with mags. before you get to the market, the other side of the road.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Judging from the amount of disparate guesses I guess one grotty, graffiti'd passage under a railway looks much like any other. No one's close yet. I suppose Barbican/Silk Street is technically the closest so far. In spite of its apparent familiarity, I suspect it's probably a bit too obscure.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

mc_dudley says:

Do you know if this is a spot along the Jack th Ripper walk?? it looks really familiar!
I see your back in the UK now then Dave. Did you enjoy your trip over the pond? it looked really good from the end of this flickry string.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

mrsyetidooscreecher says:

Lovely photo. So many of Dave's photos make me want to improve own photography skills
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

mc_dudley says:

Dave, once guessed, this photo would fit nicely into Swampy's new pool called Things that make Britain Great. www.flickr.com/groups/makingbritaingreat/
It really shows what Britain is becoming and would be very welcome in this group I'm sure.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

Cobbled street, thin single yellow line, railway feel....

Hmmm... somewhere between Liverpool Street and Bethnal Green (passing Brick Lane etc)?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

noj.johnson says:

down by Druid Street and Crucifix lane Se1?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

peterjoel1 says:

@noj: that's exactly where I was thinking
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Gorman says:

Loopzilla is heading in the right direction... but hasn't gone quite far enough down the line.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

yosefsilver.com says:

Don't want to walk down that one at night.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Chrissy J says:

Hmm, looking at the right hand bend in the road, i can see two streets that bend that way under the railway line: code street near shoreditch station or elder street (as it turns into quaker) street under commercial street. I hope that makes some kind of sense!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Gorman says:

Both of which are between Liverpool St and Bethnal Green which is the stretch Loopzilla was referring to. But like I say, it's the right direction but it's not far enough down the line.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

photocat7 says:

It looks a bit like that nasty bend on Dunbridge Street as it hits 3 Colts Lane.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Gorman says:

I can't find a new way to tell you that it's not between Liverpool St and Bethnal Green... it's further down the line.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

Near Cambridge Heath Road?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Gorman says:

Yes. Very.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

.pj. says:

i know exactly where this is:

round the back of the oval, just off cambridge heath road/mare street, by the canal, near empress coachworks.

in fact, i think it may be called corbridge crescent.

it's a famous dumping ground and it leads into an even narrower alley of death.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

I was heading up Cambridge Heath Road in my mind, on to Mare Street. Are we opposite Vyner Street?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

.pj. says:

yes indeed.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Dave Gorman says:

peejay76 - that's a very precise answer... it is indeed Corbridge Crescent, the least crescent shaped Crescent I've ever seen. The alley it's looking into is called Grove Passage although the road sign is all but covered in guano and other detritus. And yes, Loopzilla, it is indeed opposite Vyner Street.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Sam Knox says:

Aaaah, I still reckon it's somewhere between Liverpool St and Bethnal Green.
Sometimes I get a kick out of being blatantly wrong in the face of overwhelming facts ;-)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Raveydv says:

Is this somewhere between Liverpool St and Bethnal green?
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

russkymike [deleted] says:

Great colors and composition!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Chrissy J says:

So who else thinks we need to start a new pool called GuessWhereBetweenLiverpoolStreetandBethnalGre en? We could have fantastic arguments ;)
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Paul D-P says:

Is the blue from a neon sign or xmas lights?

They seem to add that bit more interest to the whole photo.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Burza-snieta says:

This is about 1 minute from my house and I've got a photo of it in the fog which I'll dig out, it looks really creepy. The Oval is indeed quite skanky but I believe it used to be a fish pond with a few cottages around it back when we had highwaymen on the Cambridge (Heath) Road.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

deejayhart says:

Is this photo anything related? I think it might well be...
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

starworshipper says:

those walls just scream for some more fresh paint
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

I went past this on a D6 bus this evening.....scary!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

.pj. says:

you should have got off and had a lie down - there was an old mattress there for months.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

I'll go back there later... since it has been raining all day.

This location is only a few hundred metres from Broadway Market... I like that stretch of the canal....
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

Paul Forsdick says:

The sickly yellow (slightly bilious) lighting mixed with the blue really gives a feeling of unease, and the stained, grafitti-strewn walls look amazingly grimy.

The lighting is a bit OTT for my personal tastes (looks a bit like overdone photoshop) but it's a superbly grim photo. Now leg it before someone does us over!
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

LoopZilla says:

Photoshop? I use the GIMP!!

www.gimp.org/
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

giullong says:

Il Muro/The Wall
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Please tag this photo with Il Muro when you add it to the pool.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

_sarchi says:

I like the blue saturation I think
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

mysttweaver says:

the colours are so unusual. From reading the posts, this doesn't sound like a very nice place to be, but you have found such beauty in it - well done.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

.pj. says:

there is no beauty in this alleyway, unless you count guano, sick, dog droppings, stained and sodden mattresses, dank condensation and mildewed brickwork in your definition of beauty.
Posted 31 months ago. ( permalink )

whydweeb says:

its near hackney road or off cambridge heath road :)
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

sean_hickin says:

There may be no beauty, but it shows the truth and that has a beauty all its own
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

SallyB2 says:

Hi.
Just to let you know that I have borrowed your alley for www.londonist.com today.
Ta.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

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