River Lea – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

May tweets

Lots of Ramsgate photos, plus the usual nonsense.

Seagull raiding the Wetherspoon Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate.

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for September

A rubbish heap in which a Ukrainian nuclear fireman finds romance with Willie Nelson.

July tweets from London’s Singing Organ-Grinder

Leave your city burnin like Gamera

Stamina, blaze up your space, plus I got it on camera. Lower Clapton’s wildlife and some audiovisual plans.

Early photography by the Organ-Grinder, from Carnaval in Denekamp, Twente, Overijssel, Netherlands in 1989. I can't remember whether the scene was proverbial or topical. Maybe no one knew.

Singing Organ-Grinder tweets for April

Cranking it up along the River Lea.

Organ-grinding tweets for March 2018

The latest barrel organ news from Hackney, London.

Section of London-Harwich in 1675, crossing the River Lea at Bow.

London organ-grinder tweets for September 2017

Barrel/street organ stuff.

Napoleon as Harlequin, tumbler, fraudster, monkey (?): Come, come, honest gents, have you ever seen a comedy like that!

London’s River Lea and Waltham Forest in Drayton’s 1622 Poly-Olbion

Now you see ’em, now you don’t.

Olympic Park with the River Lea in 2012, before the Singing Organ-Grinder arrived.

Hackney Brook restoration scheme

Iain Sinclair wrote of when “global warming rolls a warm sea [up] the course of the old Hackney Brook.” The flow’s going to be the other way. Let me explain.