ImagesBrighton pictures of the week 17-1-2005

IMAGESBRIGHTON photography by david gray
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Shoreditch is immediately north-east of the City of London and its High Street forms part of the old Roman highway that includes Bishopsgate in the City and Kingsland Road in Hackney. This week's pictures come from a recent walk around the streets of Shoreditch and they show that familiar London mixture of grime and gentrification. Old warehouses become art galleries and design studios. Derelict buildings that only recently hosted rave parties are turned into apartment blocks. Victorian brickwork thick with the dirt of the railway age is scrubbed up for the new world of loft living and wi-fi broadband. The manufacturing and trading heritage of the Victorian era is swept away and the new cultural life of Shoreditch harks back to the 16th century, when the first public theatres in London were set up in the area. Shakespeare, once he had learnt to dodge the traffic in Shoreditch High Street, would probably find plenty to write about here today.

Detail of the Beano mural on the Comedy Cafe in Rivington Street (image 2584-38)

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