A report by Mark Westall for Fad Magazine. Opening at Tate Britain in December, Life Between Islands will be a landmark exhibition exploring the extraordinary breadth of Caribbean-British art over four generations. It will be the first time a major national museum has told this story in such depth, showcasing 70 years of culture, experiences and ideas…
Andrew Whitehead
The Roundhouse and Di Clay
- Credit: Andrew Whitehead/Di Clay
It was built as an engine shed - later became a liquor warehouse - and bounced back from dereliction to become the epitome of London cool.
The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm has had a much livelier history that most railway buildings, and more than 170 years on it s still going strong.
The Roundhouse dates from the 1840s, when rail lines started carving their way across north London. It was a hugely impressive piece of architecture incorporating a locomotive turntable which gave the building its shape and name.
But within little more than a decade, the engines became too big for the turntable. By the end of the 1860s, Gilbey s was using the place to store its gin.
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Odumakin: Too cruel a sting
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By Sola Lawal
This is one death too many, Yinka. How fate played a rude one on us! You left at 55. You left behind Pa Ezekiel Abioye Odumakin, your father who turned 115 at his last birthday. Your mother, Alice Ojuolape, 92, is mourning a gem of a child.
Alice couldn’t stop asking why death didn’t take her and leave you here. Ezekiel couldn’t stop wishing this bad dream to end. ” Please shake me up from this bad dream”, Pa Ezekiel begged visiting Afenifere team.
We were in Moro, the rustic, forgotten, rural community in the fringes of the ancient Ile Ife that donated you to our struggle.
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This is one death too many, Yinka. How fate played a rude one on us! You left at 55. You left behind Pa Ezekiel Abioye Odumakin, your father who turned 115 at his last birthday. Your mother, Alice Ojuolape, 92, is mourning a gem of a child.
Alice couldn’t stop asking why death didn’t take her and leave you here. Ezekiel couldn’t stop wishing this bad dream to end. “Please shake me up from this bad dream,” Pa Ezekiel begged the visiting Afenifere team.
We were in Moro, the rustic, forgotten, rural community in the fringes of the ancient Ile Ife that donated you to our struggle.