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1976: Homeless in London – part 4
Five days without a change of clothes, roaming the street for much of the day, visiting umpteen people and organisations that seemed powerless to help – and a car chase around Stoke Newington. Being homeless is painful, tiring, squalid and I felt very much alone.
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Two days in London and my physical & mental health improve immensely
A trip to London to meet up with friends, many of whom I had not seen since the late 1970s, ended up being a tonic for mind and soul.
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District heating: how do you retrofit central heating to tower blocks?
Providing a wet central heating system to seven 18-storey tower blocks and four 6-10 storey blocks requires a great deal of planning. It would be all too easy for something to go wrong.
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Imagine a garden on the 10th floor of a tower block. Not possible surely..?!
Council tenants living in tower blocks with gardens? Surely not I here you gasp…
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Actors and film crew descend on Brandon Estate for GLC: The Carnage Continues
Another film crew on Brandon Estate, this time for a BBC Comic Strip episode with Lee Van Cleef, Charles Bronson and Brigitte Nielson….
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From Caravan to AC/DC in one day
12 May 76: listening to Caravan in the morning and down to the Marquee in the evening for a completely unknown band called AC/DC…
Colin Anderson 