Protected views
Fancy seeing a film of me acting furtively in the dusk at Addington Hills? Of course you do.
This short film was made for the National Trust London's campaign for protected views for South London. Other films feature actor Paapa Essiedu in Battersea, historian Leo Hollis on the South Bank, Horniman Museum bigwig Janet Vitmeyer and architect Benedict O'Looney in Peckham.
Mine as filmed at twilight, at the viewing point of Addington Hills, just by the Chinese restaurant hidden in the woods (I know, me neither) and past the car park best known as a dogging hotspot. Thanks NT.
Actually, the viewpoint is a wonderful spot, with views of Croydon's mini-Manhattan to the left, the mound of Crystal Palace ahead, with its two tall South London transmitters, and the clusters of towers of London Bridge and Docklands to your right. As the sun went down it twinkled like Blade Runner.
As I waited for the crew to turn up groups of people wandered up and pointed at the Norwood transmitter saying 'oh look, the Shard', or the Wembley arch saying 'there's the London Eye.' There are no interpretation boards – not that they would help, with the rapidly changing skyline providing new monuments faster than the engravers can keep up with.
It's a great spot to go for the view, to walk the dog, read a book in the dark, have a Chinese or a shag. Some things never change.
This short film was made for the National Trust London's campaign for protected views for South London. Other films feature actor Paapa Essiedu in Battersea, historian Leo Hollis on the South Bank, Horniman Museum bigwig Janet Vitmeyer and architect Benedict O'Looney in Peckham.
Mine as filmed at twilight, at the viewing point of Addington Hills, just by the Chinese restaurant hidden in the woods (I know, me neither) and past the car park best known as a dogging hotspot. Thanks NT.
Actually, the viewpoint is a wonderful spot, with views of Croydon's mini-Manhattan to the left, the mound of Crystal Palace ahead, with its two tall South London transmitters, and the clusters of towers of London Bridge and Docklands to your right. As the sun went down it twinkled like Blade Runner.
As I waited for the crew to turn up groups of people wandered up and pointed at the Norwood transmitter saying 'oh look, the Shard', or the Wembley arch saying 'there's the London Eye.' There are no interpretation boards – not that they would help, with the rapidly changing skyline providing new monuments faster than the engravers can keep up with.
It's a great spot to go for the view, to walk the dog, read a book in the dark, have a Chinese or a shag. Some things never change.
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