Here is the culmination of my SW11 project: a strange capsule of time, that uses photos of the locations in their present day form, but with an accompanying audio that transports you back decades, into the mind of someone who spent their entire childhood roaming these streets.
![Nicola (2022), photography. “One time, they [her friends] were on the tracks that went all the way to [Clapham] junction, and they were messing about and they answered the line, cos we were playing on the railway with corrugated iron– snowing, using it to slay down the hill. And them lot went up there and they answered the phones and was telling the man– we never went up after that, we pooped ourselves– he said “we can see you, you’re a little blonde headed girl, you’ve got blah blah with you- GET OFF THE TRACKS! Or you’ll get killed!”, and we were like this [scared], and it shit us up, so we didn’t go back.” - excerpt from an interview with my mum.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50a2a7a5d0ed0826c1decd0158d3b2f1059191cb97b660826cf6370ad72d94fd/WhatsApp-Image-2022-05-12-at-3.35.53-PM.jpeg)
![Lyndsay (2022), photography. “ There used to be Buddha prayers near the pagoda. When it first come out, we was young- if you google it, you’ll find out when it come out, I was that age so, I can’t remember. And um, it’s been there for a while. In the little hut -they used to have huts I don’t know if they’ve got it anymore- but they used to have a back door this little door [laughs] and they used to all leave- the monks used to leave their shoes outside and we used to run and hide their shoes [laughs]. But it was fun then! You know what I mean- we were only young! … No but we used to knock and run away when they were praying- that’s bad .. You know, now I’m thinking “oh my god!”, you know. But at the time it was hilarious. We was only little it was like playing knock down ginger innit- put the bottle on the door, knock and run it used to smash on the floor. We used to just blame each other, push each other.” - excerpt from the first Battersea Park interview with mum](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bc3e7b8ceb6ffb4237582b5ab03661736d6b0f9575de3985be0754bfbc8332e/WhatsApp-Image-2022-05-07-at-1.27.19-PM1.jpeg)
![Mickey (2022), photography. “we used to play there [the heliport], and one day I didn’t go. I didn't see the boy actually, it was one of my– Nico– you remember Nico, Nicola’s friend? She saw them, one of these boys threw a stone, and he lost his balance and he went in the water– the current took him. They were crying for days, Nico was upset– they were crying for days. Mickey his name was, Beautiful, beautiful Mickey.” - Excerpt from the full interview with mum.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ff6ada14f88449b1229b5e083c2e3bb484c456177c8ec60cfed3269292c4d763/WhatsApp-Image-2022-05-08-at-6.02.10-PM1.jpeg)
