Chopping and changing: The twilight world of Smithfield meat market
IT’S 3am and while the rest of London sleeps, Smithfield Market comes alive. An unending stream of white vans drive to the bays of the ancient market, where, once loaded, they sail off to different corners of the capital to bring meat to our plates.
Mod Willie versus rockers on Brighton Beach
EVERY May bank holiday, Willie Deasy remembers the Rocker he whacked over the head with a beach chair during the riotous summer of 1964. The 75-year-old Archway resident was a leading Mod whose seaside battles with the Rockers saw his tribe featured on the front pages of tabloid newspapers.
Women’s lost years haunt Holloway prison site
EVERY corner of the empty site tells the story of the thousands who had to call Holloway prison their home at one point in their life. There are a few spectres of normality – a cat flap, a dance studio and a small health centre nicknamed “the Pizza Hut” by inmates because of an angular shape which resembles the restaurant chain.
Workers remove ‘concreteberg’ the size of a whale
ARMAGEDDON was the 1998 smash-hit film of the summer where a team of eight men led by Bruce Willis launched into space to destroy an asteroid headed straight to Earth. But unknown to residents of Finsbury, a similar drama was unfolding beneath their feet as a crew of eight Thames Water workers sought to drill through and destroy a concreteberg the size of a blue whale this week.