08 July 2011

Dockland

ed: RJM Carr, pub: North East London Polytechnic/Greater London Council, 1986

05 July 2011

Waters of Sound

Isolated elements from Waters of Time (Bill Launder, Basil Wright for Port of London Authority, UK, 1951) soundtrack:



music  (by Alan Rawsthorne) 9:15 mp3
location sound  11:07 mp3
narration 
(Paul Dehn) 10:40 mp3
prose poem sound collage  5:08 mp3


21 June 2011

"A gull could fly for eleven miles up river, on the back of a sea wind, and never leave Dockland…"

Extract from Waters of Time (Bill Launder, Basil Wright for Port of London Authority, UK, 1951).

09 May 2011

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up 1838 by J. M. W. Turner

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up
painted by J. M. W. Turner, Bermondsey, 1838



Surrey Docks to London Bridge from We Was All One 1972



There must be a hell of a lot from Rotherhithe, that's the Surrey Docks, right the way down to London Bridge, a lot of jobs lost there wasn't there, yeah right the way down, and how many worked in the Surrey Docks at one time…