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Don McCullin and gentrification
Mirandola
November 2011
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Turns out Don McCullin was born in Finsbury Park and grew up in gangs and poverty. <div><div><br></div><div>The 'Guv'nors'<br><div><br></div><div><a href="
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/photographerframe.php?photographerid=ph041
">
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/photography/photographerframe.php?photographerid=ph041</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hornsey
Road cafe:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="
http://contact.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/G0000w.uCD_7NqgM/I00009M3FhRPONXw/2
">
http://contact.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/G0000w.uCD_7NqgM/I00009M3FhRPONXw/2</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>And
for more on a very ungentrified Finsbury Park: <a href="
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/may/22/don-mccullin-southern-frontiers-interview
">
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/may/22/don-mccullin-southern-frontiers-interview</a></div><div><br></div><div>'<span
class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">..., no one was encouraged to do well for themselves. You were much more acclaimed for getting your collar felt by the police or battering someone. It was full of bigotry and it was like quicksand pulling me down to oblivion.'</span></div>
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Arkady
November 2011
Wonderful stuff, thank you. I'd love to see a collection of his North London pictures.<br><br>Chances are Hornsey Road looks worse now.<br>
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Thomas
November 2011
<P>His book 'In England' is well worth investing in for the coffee table. </P> <P>Quite a few images of Finsbury Park at the front end. </P>
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Mirandola
November 2011
@Arkady
,<div><br></div><div>Pretty sure it was worse then. Crime will have gone down a lot, for a start.</div>
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