Saturday November 13, 2010
Commissioned in 2003 by the Shoreditch Map Company, the original painting now hangs above the table football machine in Bar Kick in Shoreditch High St
"Specialises in the arcane and amazing, producing all kinds of ephemera, drawings and prints that exist somewhere between satires and celebrations." Featuring some lovely East London ephemera.
Two Napoleonic cannons from the Battle of Trafalgar, set into the pavement of Boundry Passage, serving as bollards. Each has a cannon ball welded into the top and these trophies became the model when more bollards were required.
Replicas were cast in different sizes and proportions, and today they are to be seen everywhere in London, yet among all the hundreds that line our city streets, these two are special because they are the real thing, though I wonder if anyone who walks through Boundary Passage today is aware that these are spoils of war.
Stories of Shoreditch, old and new. Told and shown through the ages in honour of and to celebrate the centenary of Anorld Circus bandstand.