Glenkerry Co-operative
@glenkerrycoop.bsky.social
GCHA housing #cooperative may well be last genuinely #affordablehousing in London. Glenkerry House is a #brutalist listed building designed by Ërno Goldfinger
What colours should I use for the sky and ground?
It doesn't help that I'm colour blind 🙁
It doesn't help that I'm colour blind 🙁
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
What colours should I use for the sky and ground?
It doesn't help that I'm colour blind 🙁
It doesn't help that I'm colour blind 🙁
Still haven't finished corridor windows and vents, but looking at background colours...
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Still haven't finished corridor windows and vents, but looking at background colours...
🔹Some of the new Aberfeldy Estate residential blocks
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🔹The DPD warehouse again...
4/4
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🔹The DPD warehouse again...
4/4
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🔹Some of the new Aberfeldy Estate residential blocks
🔹ditto
🔹ditto
🔹The DPD warehouse again...
4/4
🔹ditto
🔹ditto
🔹The DPD warehouse again...
4/4
🔹Commercial waste depot 40 Gillender St (former fire station)
🔹New buildings on William Murdoch Road
🔹The Heron Wharf sales suite
🔹Canary Wharf towers from Aberfeldy Estate
3/4
🔹New buildings on William Murdoch Road
🔹The Heron Wharf sales suite
🔹Canary Wharf towers from Aberfeldy Estate
3/4
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🔹Commercial waste depot 40 Gillender St (former fire station)
🔹New buildings on William Murdoch Road
🔹The Heron Wharf sales suite
🔹Canary Wharf towers from Aberfeldy Estate
3/4
🔹New buildings on William Murdoch Road
🔹The Heron Wharf sales suite
🔹Canary Wharf towers from Aberfeldy Estate
3/4
🔹2 Trafalgar Way dev
🔹A crow
🔹An unnecessary hoarding blocking off two publicly-accessible sections of the riverside walk 🤷
🔹The DPD depot
2/4
🔹A crow
🔹An unnecessary hoarding blocking off two publicly-accessible sections of the riverside walk 🤷
🔹The DPD depot
2/4
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
🔹2 Trafalgar Way dev
🔹A crow
🔹An unnecessary hoarding blocking off two publicly-accessible sections of the riverside walk 🤷
🔹The DPD depot
2/4
🔹A crow
🔹An unnecessary hoarding blocking off two publicly-accessible sections of the riverside walk 🤷
🔹The DPD depot
2/4
And finally the miscellaneous batch
🔹St Ives Place passage to the (Lea) riverside walk
🔹The DPD warehouse from that walk
🔹New building on William Murdoch Road
🔹2 Trafalgar Way development from William Murdoch Road
1/4
🔹St Ives Place passage to the (Lea) riverside walk
🔹The DPD warehouse from that walk
🔹New building on William Murdoch Road
🔹2 Trafalgar Way development from William Murdoch Road
1/4
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And finally the miscellaneous batch
🔹St Ives Place passage to the (Lea) riverside walk
🔹The DPD warehouse from that walk
🔹New building on William Murdoch Road
🔹2 Trafalgar Way development from William Murdoch Road
1/4
🔹St Ives Place passage to the (Lea) riverside walk
🔹The DPD warehouse from that walk
🔹New building on William Murdoch Road
🔹2 Trafalgar Way development from William Murdoch Road
1/4
Next batch, Balfron Tower and Carradale House
🔹Carradale House
🔹Some graffiti I can only half claim to obey
🔹Balfron Tower from near Leven Road
🔹Canary Wharf towers lurking behind Balfron Tower
🔹Carradale House
🔹Some graffiti I can only half claim to obey
🔹Balfron Tower from near Leven Road
🔹Canary Wharf towers lurking behind Balfron Tower
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Next batch, Balfron Tower and Carradale House
🔹Carradale House
🔹Some graffiti I can only half claim to obey
🔹Balfron Tower from near Leven Road
🔹Canary Wharf towers lurking behind Balfron Tower
🔹Carradale House
🔹Some graffiti I can only half claim to obey
🔹Balfron Tower from near Leven Road
🔹Canary Wharf towers lurking behind Balfron Tower
Took the "big camera" out today to take advantage of the clear sunny (and cold) day
Mostly to get some photos of the current state of play of the Leven Road development, but first here are some of today's selfies
Maybe we could start calling ourselves 'riverside apartments?'
Mostly to get some photos of the current state of play of the Leven Road development, but first here are some of today's selfies
Maybe we could start calling ourselves 'riverside apartments?'
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Took the "big camera" out today to take advantage of the clear sunny (and cold) day
Mostly to get some photos of the current state of play of the Leven Road development, but first here are some of today's selfies
Maybe we could start calling ourselves 'riverside apartments?'
Mostly to get some photos of the current state of play of the Leven Road development, but first here are some of today's selfies
Maybe we could start calling ourselves 'riverside apartments?'
The new bridge will be handy for Glenkerryites to get to a the riverside path and Cody Dock
They included the Bus Depot Development towers, but I wonder why they didn't include the DPD warehouse on the other side of the bridge in the render...
They included the Bus Depot Development towers, but I wonder why they didn't include the DPD warehouse on the other side of the bridge in the render...
November 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
The new bridge will be handy for Glenkerryites to get to a the riverside path and Cody Dock
They included the Bus Depot Development towers, but I wonder why they didn't include the DPD warehouse on the other side of the bridge in the render...
They included the Bus Depot Development towers, but I wonder why they didn't include the DPD warehouse on the other side of the bridge in the render...
New £10m bridge over the River Lea planned to connect east London boroughs Tower Hamlets and Newham
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archive.ph/S16BH
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
New £10m bridge over the River Lea planned to connect east London boroughs Tower Hamlets and Newham
archive.ph/S16BH
archive.ph/S16BH
Autumn alliteration
🔹Bus depot development
🔹decoy diversion
🔹 Poplar poppies
🔹Bus depot development
🔹decoy diversion
🔹 Poplar poppies
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Autumn alliteration
🔹Bus depot development
🔹decoy diversion
🔹 Poplar poppies
🔹Bus depot development
🔹decoy diversion
🔹 Poplar poppies
Big noisy turnout for the TOWER HAMLETS UNITY DEMO - a peaceful, community protest against racism, Islamophobia and the far-right (originally arranged as a counter demo against a UKIP demo, but thankfully that was cancelled)
¡No pasarán! East London is Anti-Fascist!
¡No pasarán! East London is Anti-Fascist!
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Big noisy turnout for the TOWER HAMLETS UNITY DEMO - a peaceful, community protest against racism, Islamophobia and the far-right (originally arranged as a counter demo against a UKIP demo, but thankfully that was cancelled)
¡No pasarán! East London is Anti-Fascist!
¡No pasarán! East London is Anti-Fascist!
Breaking news from Poplar:
It's 6 pm and it's dark already. Next week it's going to be even worse. Much worse. Word is coming through from other parts of the country that the situation there is much the same.
Ends.
It's 6 pm and it's dark already. Next week it's going to be even worse. Much worse. Word is coming through from other parts of the country that the situation there is much the same.
Ends.
October 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Breaking news from Poplar:
It's 6 pm and it's dark already. Next week it's going to be even worse. Much worse. Word is coming through from other parts of the country that the situation there is much the same.
Ends.
It's 6 pm and it's dark already. Next week it's going to be even worse. Much worse. Word is coming through from other parts of the country that the situation there is much the same.
Ends.
Glenkerry House from Chrisp Street Market
October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Glenkerry House from Chrisp Street Market
Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis?
One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block
@peteapps.bsky.social for the Guardian
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One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block
@peteapps.bsky.social for the Guardian
archive.ph/IYw0T
October 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis?
One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block
@peteapps.bsky.social for the Guardian
archive.ph/IYw0T
One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block
@peteapps.bsky.social for the Guardian
archive.ph/IYw0T
Rainbow 🌈 over Carradale House (and the bus depot development 😠) just now
October 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Rainbow 🌈 over Carradale House (and the bus depot development 😠) just now
No trip to the Yabsley St. recycling centre is complete without a photo across the Thames of the Millennium Dome (now with a partially-cleaned canopy)
October 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
No trip to the Yabsley St. recycling centre is complete without a photo across the Thames of the Millennium Dome (now with a partially-cleaned canopy)
The last time I could see The Shard from my balcony was in 2012 before The Panoramic occluded it
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The last time I could see The Shard from my balcony was in 2012 before The Panoramic occluded it
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
Should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers - a son of a bricklayer, born in Poplar in 1905 - be seen as the real father of computing?
archive.ph/Vwv7d
Should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers - a son of a bricklayer, born in Poplar in 1905 - be seen as the real father of computing?
archive.ph/Vwv7d
October 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
Should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers - a son of a bricklayer, born in Poplar in 1905 - be seen as the real father of computing?
archive.ph/Vwv7d
Should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers - a son of a bricklayer, born in Poplar in 1905 - be seen as the real father of computing?
archive.ph/Vwv7d
Balfron Tower from Glenkerry house
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Balfron Tower from Glenkerry house
Motion on abolishing landlords passed at the Green Party conference today 👏👏👏
www.greencoordinate.co.uk/motions/abol...
www.greencoordinate.co.uk/motions/abol...
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Motion on abolishing landlords passed at the Green Party conference today 👏👏👏
www.greencoordinate.co.uk/motions/abol...
www.greencoordinate.co.uk/motions/abol...
If you get (e.g.) benefits, tax credits or attendance allowance, Tower Hamlets residents may be eligible for up to £10k for a replacement boiler or other energy efficiency measures
www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/environ...
www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/environ...
October 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you get (e.g.) benefits, tax credits or attendance allowance, Tower Hamlets residents may be eligible for up to £10k for a replacement boiler or other energy efficiency measures
www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/environ...
www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/environ...
What shall be done about the unhoused?
www.angryflower.com/1572.html
www.angryflower.com/1572.html
September 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
What shall be done about the unhoused?
www.angryflower.com/1572.html
www.angryflower.com/1572.html
Rainbow over Carradale House and Balfron Tower just now
September 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rainbow over Carradale House and Balfron Tower just now
September 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM