The Anonymous Widower

Street Art in Dalston

This mural is at Dalston Junction, where the Balls Pond Road meets Kingsland Road.

Street Art, Dalston Junction

Appropriately, it is by the old Reeves offices and factory.

Reeves Offices in Dalston

This was probably the place where my mother worked before she got married.  I’m not too sure what she did, but I think she worked in accounts or wages, although I do know that worked a comptometer.  I can remember her telling me that you used to do division, by multiplying by the reciprocals.  She still knew her reciprocals many years later.

Reeves Offices in Dalston

As befits a company, whose business has been art for nearly 250 years, the details are very much in keeping.

Another twist in this area, is that my grandmother, who my mother always said thought herself terribly posh, was born round the corner in the Balls Pond Road.  It’s going back up again!

March 13, 2010 - Posted by AnonW | World | Art, London