Discovering Leake Street

[ancient_mariner]

Today I had a trip down to London to see That Pedal Show live at The House of Vans at Waterloo as part of the Boss 40th anniversary of making those little stomp boxes for which they are famous. When I looked the location up on google maps I noticed some graffiti in the picture across from where the event was going to be held, and decided to take a look before the show.

This place is just amazing.

So my first set of pics is an attempt to tell the story of discovery, and there will be more shortly. C&C welcome as always.

Leakestreet-3985 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Leakestreet-3987 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Leakestreet-3992 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Leakestreet-4000 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Leakestreet-4007 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Leakestreet-4003 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Leakestreet-4014 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

Leakestreet-4020 by Toni Ertl, on Flickr

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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… love that kinda grungy imagery!

 

[ancient_mariner]

Thanks Daniel, I only had limited time and struggled to do all the work (there's a LOT more) justice.

 

[lightshipman]

Certainly a mass work of art, where do you start?

 

[ancient_mariner]

Certainly a mass work of art, where do you start?

It's an incredible place, easily overwhelming as you can see from my followup post, which shows the place up to about 20% of the way in. It almost felt like the entrance to one of those underground cities that would crop up in budget scifi films from the 70s and 80s, and the further in I went, the less it felt like London.