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Specialising in cult authors, artists and designers Simon Ford, former librarian, art historian, art critic Author: Wreckers of Civilisation (1999) Hip Priest (2002) https://www.abebooks.co.uk/springhead-books-rochester/54278647/sf

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Fascinating and well-designed British Government propaganda booklet on ways of keeping fit in the late 1930s. Undated but circa 1938.

25.02.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mark, Kay Carroll and Yvonne Pawlett, Prestwich. Kay wrote to me once 'I was born Kay Sullivan sometimes with an O as in O'Sullivan my initials spelt chaos (KO'S). I think I used that a lot with the Fall fan club as well as Mother. I sifted and replied to everyone who wrote to the Fall.' #FallFriday

14.02.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Really sorry but I have no idea where this picture comes from but its a very Fallish picture of The Fall #FallFriday

31.01.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There are so many artists into The Fall, here's a good one, Glenn Brown's Mark E. Smith as Pope Innocent X, 1999. #FallFriday

31.01.2025 06:56 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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At my college 'artists v graphic designers' was like 'mods v rockers' but these days I'd probably swap sides. Supercool Wim Crouwel from his 'graphic odyssey' catalogue

29.01.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On demand The Fall before youtube. #FallFriday

24.01.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agit Disco 10 - Simon Ford - YouTube This list is part of a collection of 23 complied for the 'Agit Disco' project and subsequent book by Stefan Szczelkun. To learn more about the project please...

This is a list I put together as part of a collection complied for the 'Agit Disco' project and subsequent book by Stefan Szczelkun.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

21.01.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I can see the ladies toilet but that can't be the men's? Near Shoalstone Seawater Pool, Brixham in around 1982.

21.01.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Two worlds collide, Martin Parr and Mark E. Smith at Prestwich Mental Hospital. 'Oh mental hospitals, They put electrodes in your Brain, And you're never the same, You don't dig repetition.' Is that Fiery Jack? #fallfriday

10.01.2025 08:01 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very 'The Fall' young adult book from 1975, Don't Tell Me What To Do (Pyramid Books) by Michael Hardcastle #FallFriday

20.12.2024 07:40 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another from the M. E. Smith Estate auction, by Gorillaz's Jamie Hewlett 2010 #fallfriday

20.12.2024 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Fall at Riley Smith Hall, Leeds, 7 December 1982. A4 poster, printed red on peach paper. #FallFriday

13.12.2024 06:34 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#Spursy, call the cops!

11.12.2024 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not so cool author portrait # 1 Oliver Reed

11.12.2024 13:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cool author portrait # 1 Michel Butor

11.12.2024 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Classic, literally

11.12.2024 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nice jacket for this 1949 first edition, by Graham Sutherland from a design made for Clark in 1940.

09.12.2024 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some recent acquisitions, in colour!

09.12.2024 05:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Like the thought of this, US Air Force reading Jean-Luc Godard during downtime in 1968.

07.12.2024 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. Tony Friel's last gig.

06.12.2024 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'There's A Ghost in My House' ... another from the Mark E. Smith Estate auction in 2022
#FallFriday

06.12.2024 08:10 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not got anything planned this year but if I had a time machine this would be a good Christmas party to check out #FallFriday

06.12.2024 08:02 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Popping to Rochester’s famed bookshop on the way to tonight’s Herne Bay gig and popping off at Whitstable for Peter Cushing exhibition on my journey to Luton gig tomorrow

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04.12.2024 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Good place to start!

03.12.2024 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Need to remember that sometimes you can't beat a well thumbed paperback for pulp thrills.

03.12.2024 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you get the chance, do visit Coventry Cathedral, fascinating from the detail to the epic.

03.12.2024 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anybody looking for a Christmas present for a 'Graham' who is into Slade? Make sure its not the same one who recently took it to the charity shop ...

02.12.2024 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From the Pomarium Britannicum 1821, at the front the membership list of Farningham Book Society made up of mostly Reverends...

01.12.2024 16:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Should be in a museum, one of Mark E. Smith's typewriters, from the Estate auction in 2022 #FallFriday

29.11.2024 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sky drawings over Rochester train station early morning October 2024.

28.11.2024 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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