This City Wall

by Len Grant and Phil Griffin

 

As part of Architecture Week 2005, a 44-metre continuous run of 176 photographs of each railway arch from Piccadilly to Pomona was staged on Platform 12 of Piccadilly Station.

‘…The railway viaduct is an inhabited thing; bars, a theatre, smelters, car mechanics, workshops and rehearsal rooms. There used to be basket weavers in the arch by the steps to Oxford Road Station. They made baskets that were dropped behind enemy lines at Dunkirk.

They made the woven skips for the postal sorting office on Newton Street. They were brothers and their name was Griffin. Their arch is now part of the pub called the Thirsty Scholar…This City Wall attempts to rout out a familiar structure that the city may just have grown to hold in contempt. We do not argue its grace or beauty, but we loudly celebrate its place.’
Phil Griffin

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