It’s been a long trail across four different countries and a fifth, Somalia, I couldn’t access on security grounds. Research fatigue! I needed to finish the project and get back to London to work on the book. In only three months I’d covered new parts of the trail in Kuwait and in Korea and I … More The End of the Trail by Caroline Knowles
The Excalibur Estate in Catford is a quiet pocket of prefabricated houses built as part of the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944. The houses were intended to only stand for 10 years, but are still robust homes today. Built on a network of small streets, all named after characters from the Arthurian legend, walking into … More Catford’s prefab houses: History or Housing? By Stefanie Lai
The Centre for Urban and Community Research invites local activists, local organisations, academics, residents, and government officials to this free event where you can share stories of the “regeneration” of Deptford. On Friday 25th April we will be looking back over the two decades since the publication of Jess Steele’s book Turning The Tide, History … More Regeneration Then and Now : 21 Years of Urban Change in Deptford by Francisco Calafate
The inaccessibility, on security grounds, of the Somaliland section of the flip-flop trail left me in Addis Ababa in the spring of 2012 with more time than I needed to complete the research leading to the end of the trail. This gave me a chance to update the work I’d done five years earlier. I … More Rubbish by Caroline Knowles
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