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MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: Somers Town
IMG 1386-001-Henry Croft Plaque
| 18 May 2024 |
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Phoenix Road, Somers Town. Henry Croft was the original Pearly. As a kid, he earned money as a street sweeper around the markets, picking up pearl buttons that spilled from costermonger's barrels. He began collecting donations to help the poor and hit on the idea of sewing the buttons to his jacket and trousers to identify himself. Here's his statue in the crypt of St Martin in the Fields:
IMG 1388-001-Posters
| 18 May 2024 |
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People's Museum, Phoenix Road, Somers Town. Somers Town has always been an area of social action and lefty politics.
IMG 1390-001-Pearly Queen Outfit
IMG 1393-001-Father Basil Jellicoe Plaque
| 18 May 2024 |
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Werrington Street at the junction with Aldenham Street. Read all about the good priest here: www.hamhigh.co.uk/lifestyle/21355967.father-basil-jellicoe-priest-transformed-somers-towns-social-housing
IMG 1394-001-Mike Leigh & Alison Steadman
IMG 1396-001-Amy Winehouse
| 18 May 2024 |
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On the side of a bar called Escape, Lidlington Place, Mornington Crescent.
IMG 1392-001-Somers Town Timeline
| 18 May 2024 |
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People's Museum, Phoenix Road, Somers Town. Dickens lived in Somers Town with his family in 1827-1829 when he was a teenager. He depicted the abject poverty of the area, the building of the railroads, and the huge dustpiles in Dombey & Son and Our Mutual Friend.
IMG 1391-001-Pearly Doll
| 18 May 2024 |
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People's Museum, Phoenix Road, Somers Town. Dickens lived in Somers Town with his family in 1827-1829 when he was a teenager. He depicted the abject poverty of the area, the building of the railroads, and the huge dustpiles in Dombey & Son and Our Mutual Friend.
IMG 1387-001-Gilbert Bayes Finials
| 18 May 2024 |
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People's Museum, Phoenix Road, Somers Town. These (above) are original washline finials, made of Doulton stoneware, which had been nicked and were acquired by the museum. See my photos of the Sidney Estate to see the reproduction finials on the top of the clothesline poles (below).
IMG 9781-001-Mosaic 1
IMG 9782-001-Mosaic 2
IMG 9783-001-Somers Town History
| 02 Jul 2023 |
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On a hoarding (one panel of a mural by the People's Museum Somers Town), Phoenix Road, Somers Town. The illustration depicts noted area residents Mary Wollstonecraft, her husband William Godwin and daughter Mary Shelley, along with Paul Robeson.
IMG 9786-001-Sommers Town Bollard 1817
| 02 Jul 2023 |
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"Sommers Town" is apparently the old spelling of what is now called "Somers Town". This bollard at the junction of Ossulston Street and Phoenix Road dates from 1817.
IMG 9785-001-Watching Eyes
| 02 Jul 2023 |
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Derelict building, Phoenix Road, Somers Town. I don't know what "Supreme Confidence Founded on Cruelty" refers to. It might be the work of Abdi Nadiif (Bashaling Crew).
IMG 9774-001-Washing Line Finial
| 02 Jul 2023 |
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Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9780-001-Washing Line Posts
| 02 Jul 2023 |
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Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9772-001-Washing Line Finials
| 02 Jul 2023 |
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Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
IMG 9776-001-Sidney Estate Lunette 3
| 02 Jul 2023 |
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Sidney Estate (social housing), opened in 1938 in Somers Town. The decorative ceramics are by sculptor Gilbert Bayes. The lunettes above balconies are made of Doulton stoneware and depict scenes from fairy tales. The finials on the top of washing line poles (also Doulton stoneware) are sailing ships. Read more about the estate and Bayes' ceramics here: www.curiouslondon.net/extract-the-fairy-tale-estate.html
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