Elephant & Castle’s ever changing environment
Over the years, London has seen itself change massively in terms of its aesthetic, and has been mocked for supposedly wanting to be like New York City with its high rise buildings and penthouses.
Pictured here is St Georges road, located a five minute walk from E&C’s popular roundabout and main road. However, it seems that this area is heavily surrounded by communities and the homes of the people that were here maybe before the South London area decided to make a drastic change for good.
It’s not as if these industrial changes and new wave of residents are massively far apart from the communal and residential areas are far apart from each other. In fact they are a couple minutes apart, and if you do go a few bus stop rides down the road from the bustling roundabout, you will find yourself the true representation of what E&C actually is.
Community, togetherness and old heritage is what is slipping away right in front of our eyes. Pictured here is a tower block, cemented right in the heart of Elephant and Castle, which has been here for what seems many years, However right behind these flats is a new building with a fresh and more modern design, a design we are starting to notice and become familiar with all around London. Out with the old style, in with the new.
Pictured here is the old school homes that had been built when the area was more authentic, and not on the other hand trying to impersonate cities across the pond. This picture represents how the new modern style London is trying to adopt is flushing out the communal sense of Elephant and Castle, and the community members themselves, are feeling this the most. So what do they think?
I had asked around to get a general feeling about how local people feel about the changes in Elephant and Castle. One said that they don’t visit often, and somebody that lives in the hidden parts of E&C made the presumption that they want to drive out the older residents of the area to make London look the same and more modernised.
Pictured here, is the local shops that we may be more familiar with as Londoners, and this road goes into a high road with less skyscrapers and tall buildings.