derelict.london.com

A new discovery thanks to the London Review of Books. This website is amazing, page after page of derelict and overlooked London, the city I have always seen but never observed. It makes you realise how much dereliction you see all the time; I was astonished to think that Paul Talling (I think that's his name) has found derelict buildings in even central London. But more than this his pictures show an eye for the odd and the magically beautiful, the magically ordinary. And it reminded me of old Liverpool, the city I knew, which also made me realise how much the city has been tidied up in the last ten or fifteen years.