A totally non-Tube related post before I return from my two weeks off in which I have achieved the square root of sweet F.A.

Brick Lane and Spitalfields has been one of my favourite haunts since the late 70s when I purchased my first pair of DMs at Blackman’s in Cheshire Street. In the last decade it has become a centre for street art which attracts a large number of tourists, one of the finest being the crane on the side of 49 Hanbury Street.

Tower Hamlets Council in their wisdom have decided to mask this with a banner and there is now a petition to have the crane visible once more which I have signed.

Full story here

http://trialbyjeory.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/lutfur-the-barbarian-covers-up-the-sacred-crane-of-brick-lane/

Petition here

http://www.change.org/petitions/tower-hamlets-council-save-the-crane

And come on you Irons!!!!