1984

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part…

Victoria Embankment Westminster, WC2N

…but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.

Richard Rogers' Lloyd's Building, Lime Street, City of London, EC3M

Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary.

Chamberlin, Powell and Bon's Barbican Estate, Barbican, City of London, EC1A

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness…

Kohn Pedersen Fox's Heron Tower, Bishopsgate, City of London, EC2N

…a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current…

View of Canary Wharf from Stave Hill Ecological Park, Timber Pond Road, Surrey Quays, Bermondsey, SE16

…turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.

Richard Roger's 88 Wood Street, City of London, EC2V

And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

Windsor House, Victoria Street, Victoria, Westminster, SW1

From George Orwell’s 1984 (1948)

The Den

“You never want to feel you are alone on a football pitch. Support each other.

Millwall FC, The Den, Zampa Road, Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16

That’s what a team is all about. We are united.

Michael Calvin's Family: Life, Death and Football, Millwall FC, The Den, Zampa Road, Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16

From Michael Calvin’s Family: Life, Death and Football (2010)

Dr Salter’s Daydream

The center of every man’s existence is a dream.

Diane Corvin's Dr Salter's Daydream, Bermondsey Wall East, Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16

Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle.

Diane Corvin's Dr Salter's Daydream, Bermondsey Wall East, Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16

That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

Diane Corvin's Dr Salter's Dream, Bermondsey East Wall, Bermondsey, Southwark. SE16

From GK Chesterton’s Twelve Types (1903)