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The urban palimpsests

The cover of the CD, Home, from electronic, drum and bass outfit, Rudimental, features the Hackney Peace Mural.   Steve Latham   I remember it being painted in 1985. I am surprised that it still exists and has not been painted over, in some act of so-called urban regeneration. The […]

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Living on lies

The patch of waste ground was covered over with tufts of grass, and isolated old stones, relics, remains of some dwelling which had once stood on the site.   Steve Latham   I used to walk home past this land on my home from going to the shops, when I […]

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A history of violence

I went to secondary school from 1968 until 1975. It was a Grammar School. I did not know that I was about to enter a world of institutionalised violence.   Steve Latham   At the pinnacle of our little world, was the Headmaster. In his office he kept the cane. […]