Real England

Also, the British seaside which makes up maybe 2/3 of the book was not exclusively working class then or now.

I found v little of a discernible agenda in those photos (the weakness in that exhibition were the diary entries; there was v little insight to be gained from them, and it felt intrusive). If anything it is that the summer seaside holiday allowed for events to be documented -- could be a fair, or a rock festival (iirc) -- and people were at play in them, they would behaved differently from their stuffy selves.

Brings to mind this bit from the LRB:

In her 1938 novel The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen describes a train trip from London to the Kent seaside. It’s one of the most extraordinary journeys in English literature. Without stretching the bounds of the real, she takes her young protagonist, Portia, from a 19th-century milieu – a stuffy, oppressive, metropolitan townhouse, gloomy with servants, sexual frustration, snobbery, hypocrisy and heavy furniture – to a bright 20th-century world of freedom, consumerism and erotic risk.

However people behave differently on holiday so I'm not sure whether it is even very historical. It doesn't seem alien to me. Ray-Jones was able to capture certain emotions that feel accurate and fair and strong.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Smith_Dinner.jpg

23 July 1990 Ian Smith makes a point at a dinner organised in his honour by Denis Walker (far left) at Lympne Castle, Kent, July 23, 1990. Smith is flanked by Nicholas and Anne Winterton, both MPs, and Rhodesian flags.

ive posted some shit from that persons wikipedia contributions itt before, its a treasure trove

sometimes you assume every conservative mp is a 42 yr old with an mba from an american university and a six year stint at pricewaterhousecoopers and then you realize revenants like this are still in the house of commons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Winterton

Lympne Castle is a medieval castle located near the village of Lympne, Kent, above Romney Marsh.

Today, it is used primarily as a venue for corporate events and weddings. It is generally not open to the public. The Estate Manager is Rod Aspinall. Lympne Castle is believed to be haunted, and has attracted mediums and ghost-hunters over the years.

https://www.facebook.com/CongletonPanto

hi im new here

The thread has moved on a bit but Martin Parr did have his "Luxury" project and so on:

http://www.photography-now.com/images/Bilder/gross/24721.jpg
http://thedrawbridge.org.uk/images/article-images/2196_featurepicture2_1.jpg
http://jherrig.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/parrlux2.jpg

Not going to claim that they're good photos but they're there

thread missing Pumpkin Cafe

http://s27.postimg.org/htaiwx277/Greggs_Costa_Duoply.png

the A2(M) is very real but I am not sure it is the realest motorway in England. what, then, is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4KGxDi-jvk

just about the least real autechre track though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLbB9S_iwtQ

doves covering king crimson. so unreal it might be real again

http://i.imgur.com/SZ35Ny0.png

Crucial to understanding recent events

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/dj_waxes_lyrical_about_frinton_gates_1_76906

haha what a dork

loool @ the florist's business name in the prev post

None realer than Frinton. It's an open-air mausoleum

http://i4.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article8009954.ece/alternates/s615/JS49533376.jpg

GIS search for "Khantucky Grilled Chicken" in West Hull coming up dry

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a82/bobbysixer/IMG_2551_zps7ccb5e87.jpg

Camden tourists advertising ILE

there are ways to mute the shutter sound you know

love how were having a great Real England then Bob Six wanders in with his morning's pervings. I mean, nothing really against it but it's off-topic y'know

maybe take it to 'too much time on ilx'? more americans there, they'll appreciate your transgressive exposé

it's a little bit importunate to take photographs of people in that sort of setting

Bobble hat fetishists disrupting threads just as genuine dialectical progress being made...Every. Single. Time.

Sigh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBtd3H3Qdi8&feature=youtu.be

Thanks for putting the thread back on course.

just doing my job sir

This is Mohammed Azam Yaqoob aka "Mr Sparkles" (the name of his modest car wash business in Dewsbury) and a convicted heroin trafficker. I know an Asian guy who grew up with Mohammed and described him as "thick as fuck" and a "disgrace to his great family". I like the guy and tbf it takes some intelligence to become a major drug trafficker and I always root for the maligned odd one out of a successful family. Of his siblings; one brother is an eminent surgeon at St James hospital, the other brother is the governor of Wakefield prison, one sister runs a successful chain of dentists and the other is a barrister.
http://i4.examiner.co.uk/incoming/article7770288.ece/alternates/s615/JS46327222.jpg

that front garden should be finished by the time he comes out

He never got planning permission and it is in more on the Ukip side of the Mirfield/Ravensthorpe borderlands so it is a focal point for local outrage and for years it has been rumoured there will be a demolition order. When he gets out if it doesn't get pulled down he will struggle to sell it because of it's frequent local rag ubiquity.

xelab that is the best of all of your posts

Yaqoob, of North Road, Ravensthorpe, was jailed for nine years and four months after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply class A drugs at an earlier hearing.

Ten years ago, he was at the centre of a planning row over a £1m house in Huddersfield Road, Mirfield, allegedly built without planning permission.

Kirklees Council ordered it to be pulled down but Yaqoob overturned the decision on appeal.

just a mensch in so many categories....opportunistic drug trafficker, exurban mansion builder, scorner of good taste, successful planning appeal litigant, confiscation order refusenik

got a lot of love for these sorts of spivs and chancers

http://i.imgur.com/fEtGGiP.jpg

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2014/10/24/wanted-16m-heroin-haul-suspects-sought-by-police-after-oldbury-raid/

i was reading that Express and Star bit last week, i agree about hilarious roguery but also some of these guys have probly had people seriously fucked up when necessary so swings and roundabouts

these people look like the sort of speculative daytrippers who end up getting abducted and threatened by actual gangsters, most serious organized criminals realizing that the latter is less risky than trying to import large quantities of class a themselves

man if you could suck ur own dick I bet you would

the things i could accomplish if uk landfill posters ever tried to get their nhs dentures off of my dick

well ex-Vice.com freelancers surrounded by empty packs of Twiglets have an inherently low ceiling so don't be so hard on yourself mate

http://trimsalonthus.nl/trimbeurt/dorke-een-chow-chow-pup/

he was a better vice writer than you pal

is there some kind of silent alarm in yr sub-Loi brain that goes off whenever one of the many ilxors you are a perennial bitch-boy for gets insulted

marc loi is a better writer than you.

coming from the benighted clown prince of ILE that is quite the compliment

I like twiglets

we ever twig 'burger