Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Was the Tube Really this Dark?
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Film was slower then. This looks like a nice piece of Kodachrome 25ASA (on a tripod), now with a bit of a magneta cast. Expose for the hignlights...
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Remember how smoky the tube was? How there was a choice of smoking /not smoking carriages? Ghagh. One of the better and most long-term GLC changes, early 80's? was when they brought in no-smoking on London Transport. This was a policy hoik, not as a result of the Kings Cross fire which has become the myth. That fire was reckoned to have been started by an (already) illicit fag-end getting trapped in the junk under the escalator.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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You'd be accosted by staff and spoken to over the loudspeakers if you tried to take that photo now. Strange that they wait until an age when every single individual carries a camera to forbid the use.
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It's tripods and flash that are banned. Still ok to do hand-held photos. But if they decide you are A Terrorist, you'll get nicked.
Never let them insist on deleting your pics or arrest you, carry the bust card from I'm A Photographer Not A Terrorist, lots of the untrained TfL police will not be that up to date with what is OK and not OK.
I keep meaning to bring my camera to photograph the miserable heap of people trying to cram themselves onto the tube at Seven Sisters in the morning. Must get myself there when I'm not one of the crowd trying to get to work. And think how it will be when all those extra Luxury Flats get built around the tube...
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Really pamish ? we can photograph train stations without being accosted ? i think not.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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It sounds to me that Pamish knows what she's talking about. I think she's saying that you have that right, James, whatever official on the ground might say. Are you offering anecdotal experience or do you have a point of law to offer?
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i'm discussing the fact that if you try to take a photograph of a train station you will be accosted by staff/police. I did not refer to anything else except the irony that we all have cameras nowdays but we are strictly discouraged from using them :-)
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As stations are private property (?) I guess they could have their own regulations re who can do what. But AFAIK there's no 'law' against photographing there. There are signs saying that using flash is banned, for the simple reason that blasting a flash in a driver's eyes is not a good thing. The recent S44 Terrorism Act stuff is a whole new pile of ammo for the jobsworths but as long as we all keep challenging it they may eventually back off.
If I wanted to do a major piece of work inside a station I'd get permission first to avoid any hassle from jobsworths. And I'd make sure I didn't get in anyone's way, or point my camera at anyone who looks at all murderous (same as everywhere really).
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Recently I was taking photos around Harringay Green Lanes Station (of the litter) and was surprised and a little bemused to be approached by a station employee and asked (nicely) what I was doing. When I explained that I was taking pics of litter to complain about it, she was fine, she didn't ask me to delete them.
I think that TFL staff may have been instructed to approach anyone taking photos even if they are Mumsy types pushing a buggy and taking pics with a point and shoot of discarded coke cans and fried chicken boxes.
Does seem strange and reminiscent of Eastern Europe during the cold war. My grandfather had his film removed in Russia for taking a photo of a railway station in Moscow. Strange how things turn out...
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Street google makes a mockery of the 'don't take photo' policy.
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