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Reblogged from eloercs  6,187 notes
Posted 18, April, 2013

izzystardust:

indefenseofart:

To start off the week, I have an important announcement. The iconic skatepark in London’s Southback Centre is going to be destroyed for the sake of yet another commercial shopping complex. (yes, this is the skatepark from the Sherlock episode, ‘The Blind Banker.’) This is the heart of London skate culture so please spread the word and save the Southbank skatepark by signing this petition at Change.org to protect the history, the legacy and the future of skateboarders and skateculture.

omg what nooo!!!

Reblogged from joannechocolat  114 notes
Posted 18, April, 2013
joannechocolat: All around the world, the library stands as one of the truest symbols of  a progressive civilization. That’s why, at times of political repression, religious intolerance, social regression and descent into barbarism, books have been burnt and censored and access to libraries denied. This amazing picture from WW2, showing people using a half-demolished library, says everything that needs to be said. And during the week in which a man who is closing all the libraries chose to spend  my money and yours on an extravagant funeral for the woman who said “there is no society”, to me this image of hope seems especially poignant. The Nazis knew what they were doing when they bombed this library. But the public saved it. They saved it because they knew very well what a library represents. Libraries are freedom. Libraries are equality. Libraries are society. Libraries are understanding. Libraries belong to all of us. And they are still worth saving.

joannechocolat:

All around the world, the library stands as one of the truest symbols of  a progressive civilization. That’s why, at times of political repression, religious intolerance, social regression and descent into barbarism, books have been burnt and censored and access to libraries denied.

This amazing picture from WW2, showing people using a half-demolished library, says everything that needs to be said.

And during the week in which a man who is closing all the libraries chose to spend  my money and yours on an extravagant funeral for the woman who said “there is no society”, to me this image of hope seems especially poignant.

The Nazis knew what they were doing when they bombed this library. But the public saved it. They saved it because they knew very well what a library represents.

Libraries are freedom.

Libraries are equality.

Libraries are society.

Libraries are understanding.

Libraries belong to all of us.

And they are still worth saving.

Reblogged from xwidep  11 notes
Posted 18, April, 2013

xwidep:

30 years ago today the one pound coin replaced the one pound note.

Here is a link to a fascinating article about what you could have bought for a £1 back in 1983 (not everything on the list, each item was worth £1 in 1983).

  • 2 pints of Beer
  • 20 pack of Cigarettes
  • 6lbs of frozen Chicken
  • 3 loaves of sliced Bread
  • 2.77litres of Petrol