Recently in Lewisham Category
That graph is the rather stunning traffic impact of the London Riots on the Brockley Central blog:
The London riots sent traffic through the roof, with 35,000 visitors on the Monday, when riots in Lewisham took place and 45,000 visitors on the Tuesday, when Brockley Kate provided coverage of the aftermath and we provided a live report, during which mostly nothing happened. On a good day, the site normally gets 2,000 visitors.
I'm not surprised - as someone who was monitoring the situation in Lewisham very closely, Brockley Central was the only reliable source of information when the national media was largely ignoring what was happening in Lewisham.
Found by Joseph Stashko. He's also got a map of what happened in Lewisham.
A burned-out car not far from my Lewisham flat, from a photo set by Tom Royal.
A rough night in London, as looters smashed up and burnt high streets all over the capital.
Morning has dawned, with the #riotcleanup hashtag, promoted early on by Dan Thompson, helping people co-ordinate themselves to clean up the damage of the night before. Proof, if you want it, that social media is inherently neutral, and that people can use it for good or ill.
Some links:
- Brixton yesterday morning, before the next wave of riots.
- Riot damage in Deptford
- The night the looters stole from us all
- Matthew Taylor explores the Prime Minister's challenge
- Good to see student journalists doing live coverage of the riots
- Bad to see journalists being attacked
- Brockley Central has a time-line of attacks in the south east of London
- Google map of rioting locations
- The story of what's rapidly becoming the defining image of last night
Clapham looks shut this morning:
[via @greencourier]
More as I find them.
Update: 10.10am
- Guardian news meeting, with a map of London
- Brockley Central lists damaged shops in south east London
People waiting to join #riotcleanup in Clapham, via Simon Parsons
Update: 10.20am
- A first person account of a restaurant being attacked last night
- Facebook page in support of the Police
- Remember you're a #riotwomble
Update: 10.45am
- The Times is reporting that London's cells are full [£]
- At times like this no news can be news.
- A tumblr for photos of looters
The Great Harry pub in Woolwich (via @darryl1974)
Feels like a miracle that no-one's been killed in the riots yet, especially when you see this:
Update: 12:01pm
There's been a definite shift away from recording the damage and arranging positive action, into blame-storming and political posturing, which I'm less interested in chronicling.
Here's a last link for now, channeling the positive vibe of this morning.
There's trouble in my long-term home of Lewisham tonight. Joseph Stashko is doing a bang-up job of tracking it on Storify:
