Swanky places to eat and buy stuff or just was your clothes and get your hair cut in our glittering capital city.http://londonshopfronts.tumblr.com/
er… :blink: dont get it
ps welcome newbie! 
Well I liked it! Nice shots of cool shop fronts - the tattoo shop in Forest Hill should be in your collection, as should the hairdressers called ‘Tinki Beauty’ in Deptford!
yeah, what was the point in that?
I think you might consider it art… maybe there doesn’t need to be a point as such! Or maybe the geezer just wanted to share that with us, because he thought it was cool?
It’s just interesting - we usually zip past these places on our bikes or in our cars - when you look at the pics they say a lot - about the communities that use them - each shopfront tells multiple storys if you will.
Just let your imagination roam a bit. 
Yes I am no longer Sidney Throttle. . .
I love the look of some of those - it reminds you how shonky London really is 
here is another site with photos all taken from the top deck of buses
Reminds me of some of the places I used to live. 
I like the word “Shonky”
I would have said Sh!thole myself;)
Great upper deck pics Viggen - i’ts like when I ride through London and am stopped at some lights - watching people go by - looking in shops - wondering about people and their storys.
It’s funny what you would normally walk/ride/drive past not giving a second glance - but when you do take actually look at them - you see all sorts of interesting/random stuff …
Some real “if these walls could talk” shops in these pictures … good to see that they are still in business
So many lives - so many storys - reminds me of that great Rutger Hauer line in Bladerunner:All those … moments will be lost in time, like tears…in rain. Time to die.
One of the best lines in possibly the finest film ever made
So true - London looks and feels more and more like Bladerunner each year. . …
There is a stretch on the Harrow Road just before the Irish bike shop by the top of Ladbroke Grove with some quite run-down looking shop fronts. Not too pretty but interesting if you look at it in a demographic way.
It’s like archaeology - the cities sedimentary layers getting laid down and slowly covered over.
It’s also memory - memory of the past fading and diminishing and finally being lost forever along with the people that mmade up that past.
God i’m getting morbid. . . :ermm:
I like this.
In my opinion it’s why ‘start from scratch’ new towns like Poundsbury, Milton Keynes et al can’t really work as ‘places’ until they acquired have the patina of time. Okay so these shopfronts might not represent the pinnacle of human acheivement but they do represent real lives and not some manufactured facade of history (or modernity).
Those sites are brill; cheers, guys.
It’s interesting to see the shops treated in such a dispassionate way. It’s an archive - they won’t be around forever.
I’ve thought about doing one of those timelapse YouTube videos, but of a certain place in London. One picture a week for however long - just to see how it changes over time. In fact, I think I shall.
Each shop seems to tell a story - you can imagine the people that run them and go in them - you could write a play based on some of these pictures.