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London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
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Many thanks!
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Seem to be four street lighting styles on Myatt’s Fields South Estate. Thought of you when I took these yesterday. Perhaps need to revisit for better photos of a couple
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The health centre there merits a mention of this deeper dive into Bermondsey’s health care by @municipaldreams.bsky.social
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They look a bit 90s or 00s retro rather than truly vintage, but I can honestly say I have no idea. Apologies for being hopeless!
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Go back even further and the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social has digitised lots of old public health and sanitary reports - a few from Barnet at archive.org/search?query...
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Barnet comes before Battersea in the alphabet doesn’t it? Not sure why I struggle with this. Barnet will have to be tomorrow!
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It was a one off experiment!
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That could make a great season finale!
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Thank you - I missed that one!
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Do you know about 'Place de Wandsworth' in Villers-Plouich, replete with phone kiosk?
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Excellent work!
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Thanks to @astonmansfield.bsky.social for digging this out.
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In Greenwich, a plaque commemorates the naming of the Maribor flats in Gloucester Circus
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My fav is Camberwell twinned with Sceaux - Camberwell has the Sceaux gardens estate (where some of the blocks are named after schools/locations in Sceaux, like Lakanal, Marie Curie) and Sceaux has Avenue de Camberwell
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That’s a great one, because the twinning doesn’t seem to have transferred over to LB Southwark.
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Footscray in Bexley has an Evry Road and Évry-Courcouronnes has the Salle Polyvalente Bexley event space
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Rue de Richmond in Fontainebleau appears to be recently built, although per Google Street View it remains unopened and the most recent picture (the last one) shows it deteriorating and becoming overgrown.