Boxed in: Dennis Morris's Club Row photo then and now
Space is the place, they say, and yesterday I found myself in one interesting little space: the bit of Club Row in Shoreditch/Bethnal Green from where the photographer Dennis Morris took his celebrated snap of Ken Edwards and his boxmen (roadies/performers) for the Admiral Ken soundsystem one day in 1973 or '74 (I've seen it variously dated). This photo: Club Row then (Pic: Dennis Morris) Evidently a "random shot" which Morris ended up with by chance as he wondered around the area one Sunday morning, it's obviously also to some degree "staged", with - at the very least - Morris getting them to pose for the shot. Anyway, I've been seeing this image for years and have often half-heartedly wondered about the exact location. So yesterday, in classic A London Inheritance style (though nowhere near as well researched), I detoured to the same road and took a new photo from more or less the precise spot as Morris's: Club Row now Hmm, pretty differe...
