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Window watching

120 images Created 31 Oct 2008

A growing series of quirky window messages and perspectives from around London.

Windows have been around for a long time - the Romans invaders even had a glass substance that sealed the chilly British air - and stench - from their sensitive Roman noses.

Nowadays, I'm attracted to the labelling and messaging that becomes attached to the inside or outside of panes of glass, as if they are urban, public post-it notes for anything an individual wishes to share or advertise.

Sometimes the message can be a warning, a cry for help or just an accidental freak of mis-spelling that somehow confuses meanings from that intended.

(See also the gallery called 'Bust - The Art of Recession' which narrows down this obsession to those windows of closed businesses).

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  • Londoners seen reflected in multiple plate glass windows on a busy summer lunchtime, in the Square Mile, the capital's historic financial district.
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  • Trendy blue suits with red prices and lettering on display in a central London menswear shop.
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  • © Richard Baker / IPG 2002.Individual - Portfolio set..A white-washed window in Victoria, London...
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  • A message for help has been left on the inside of a vacant business in Cheapside (Street) in the City of London. Written back to front from inside, the writer has mis-spelled the word 'we're' . In the UK, vacant or redeveloped shops and businesses, are smeared with diluted white emulsion paint and water thereby obscuring the building's interior for security reasons.
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  • Silhouette of Tintin seen through closed restaurant and bar in London's Charing Cross Road.
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  • Cracked glass and emulsion painted window of a Leicester Permanent Building Society branch in Bromley High Street, London.
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  • Closed Thai restaurant business The King and I, in Bromley High Street, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • Faded newspaper sheets are stuck to a closed newsagent's window in Dulwich, South London UK
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  • Fading newspaper has been hanged across a window of a closed clothing alteration business, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • 'Store Closing, All Stock Reduced' posters stuck to the window of a Woolworths shop in the town of Nailsea, Nth Somerset. .
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  • Smeared emulsion and commercial paper stuck to a  window of an East Dulwich newagents,  a victim of the UK recession.
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  • A closed Hair salon studio in Bloomsbury London, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of fish and chip shop Top Nosh, a victim of the recession in West Street Bristol.
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  • Empty shoe shop in London's Covent Garden, a victim of the Uk recession.
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  • Empty shoe shop in London's Covent Garden, a victim of the Uk recession.
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  • A boarded-up travel agent's business advertising For Your Place in the Sun seen in Bristol, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • The number 270 and a slot for the post is painted on to plyboard of a business, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • Cracked glass and artwork of Broadmead shopping mall showing fragile state of retail industry during the UK recession.
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  • Emulsion paint smeared over window of a Halal lunch shop on Streatham High Road, a victim of the UK recession
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  • Cracked glass and smeared emulsion paint on the window of estate agent Bushells, Streatham, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • The three main British political parties Greens, Labour and Conservatives are displayed to a south London home's front window.
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  • Pet dog in house window.
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  • Plastic flowers line the sill of a curtianed window of a fully licensed air conditioned restaurant in the English town of Ross-on-Wye, near the Welsh border.
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  • Smeared emulsion painted Butchers window on Clapham Common, a victim of the UK recession.
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  • A Union Jack flag hangs above white emulsion paint which has been smeared over a shop window, a victim of the UK recession.
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