Streats of London
A personal photographic project featuring street signs which include food or drink in their names within Greater London which I subsequently made into a 200-page website at www.streatsoflondon.com
In July 2005, I cycled successively past Cheshire Street and Bacon Street, which got me wondering how many other streets in London were named after food. That summer being a fallow period for my freelance advertising career, I had the time to read the index of my London A–Z map and subsequently start cycling all over London taking photos of the road signs which featured items of food or drink in their names.
The names had to be definitive, i.e. Apple Road and not Apple Tree Road, and be recognisable as referring to food, i.e. Wensleydale Road but not Cheshire Street – you’d ask for Cheshire Cheese in order to be understood.
I determined that while there were several streets named after Almond, for example, I would only take a photo of one of them. Choosing which one was entirely arbitrary, most often selected on its proximity to somewhere else I was heading on any given cycle route, or to my starting position in the Isle of Dogs.
The website identifies 494 streets within the 33 London boroughs, with images of 147 street signs that involved my cycling over 3,000 miles around London.
