Tim Bradford
Map of The New River
20 years ago I was in the middle of my obsessive walking project - journeying along the routes of now buried rivers in London - that...
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Searching for chips in the Highbury Vale Fog (Arsenal v Steaua Bucharest)
It was a midweek night and I was waiting at a Green Lanes bus stop for a 341 or 141 to take me up to the Salisbury for a few beers. The...
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Trying to picture London: the bowling green in Clissold Park
Today I’m trying to picture London. It’s now almost 6 months since we left and images are obviously in the process of being moved from...
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Kestrel Dowsing Overview
This afternoon I spotted a can of Kestrel Super K on the route of the lost Hackney Brook. I’ve noticed over the last few months that...
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Hackney Brook and Bayern Munich
Coinciding with a massive hangover, the Hackney Brook appears to have resurfaced on Blackstock Road, just south of the Arsenal Tavern....
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Return of the New River
The New River has returned. I feel a bit confused. Part of me wants to leap up and down with unrestrained joy, splashing about in the...
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The Stone
As I was flicking through the Stoke Newington OS map from 1868 (it’s a gripping read) I noticed that, north of the avenue and embankment...
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Blackberry Way
A Hackney Brook walk around to the new Arsenal stadium to gawp at some concrete and cranes then a quick sketching session (still can’t...
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Clissold Park Chainsaw Massacre
Another of the ancient horse chestnuts in the south western sector of Clissold Park, probable remnants of the old Newington Common, has...
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Old St. Mary’s Kestrel Connection
The little Hawthorne bush that nestles into an eastern corner of Old St Mary’s Church is covered in bright red berries. Beneath it is a...
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A New Underground River?
Amazing news. I’ve recently learned about an underground river that flows from Highbury down into the Hackney Brook Valley. Usually I...
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Lost Rivers Project
Today was the last day of the Lost Rivers project with Christopher Hatton School. The session took place at the Guardian Newsroom and the...
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Parr’s Ditch, Hammersmith (Part 1)
In the process of researching the history of London’s formeost manmade stream, the New River, it came to my attention that said...
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Fading leaves
Yet another of the old horse chestnut trees in Clissold Park is starting to peg out. On the south side, near the route of the buried New...
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The Curious Life of Charles Foster Talgutt
The rivers of London were mostly covered over in the space of 17 years by one man, Charles Foster (‘CF’) Talgutt, who hated running water...
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The pipes of poo?
The big ploughed trackways are still there in the park, makeshift wooden fencing on each side. It appears they are connecting two major...
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Is this Spring?
Yesterday – 7th January – I saw the first ladybird of Spring. It landed on the screen of my Imac while I was checking the latest...
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Sportsjackets in the Strand
Seeing as I was barred from using Stoke Newington library due to by inability to let go of their copy of ‘Water Nymphs and Fairies’, I...
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