[kj] Back to the Bogside

[Paul]

On further examination of the picture, the wall itself, looks like footings
or foundations for a building.
You can see what looks like bent rebars, on the tops. So would be a
substantial building or most likely a block of low flats, 3 or 4 storeys.
A lot of these were built in the 70s, because in this particular part of
the city, large amounts of houses were burnt out for one reason or another,
will leave that aspect to another day : )  Interesting and long history.

Also, the amount of building materials, particularly roof ridge tiles, on
the ground, would lead one to think it was a building site anyway.
The only other identifying parts to buildings are the shutters on the gable
of one of the houses. This is possibly a shop, but many such shops in that
part of the Bogside, but again may well be long gone. Or may not even be a
shutter at all and just a corrugated zinc panel/sheets, they would have
been used to shore up burnt out houses. I've looked at other pictures taken
by the photographer at around the same time and although features
recognisable, they are just other parts of the same area and long since
changed.

So sorry, I can be of no help. Best bet would be ask the man Don McCullin,
himself. He is 80 and lives in Somerset. He still exhibits, so may well be
contactable, a chance to use your journalistic sleuthing skills : )

Only other thing I can think of is ask one of the Undertones, a band formed
in that very place, not to many years after : )

On 8 April 2016 at 22:51, Paul <dubecho at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bogside, Derry, County Derry : ) It comes from the Irish for a line of oak
> trees, Doire.
>
> Will have a look later and see if anything that stands out and might be
> able to use Google maps, but to be honest, I would not hold out much hope,
> as the original picture was from sometime in the 70s, when the troubles
> were still ongoing, but Derry, as with other cities in the north, has had a
> huge amount of work done in building and regeneration of areas hit hard,
> and the Bogside was one place that did get it bad unfortunately. Looks like
> it was in one of the housing estates (projects) too and them streets are
> identical for huge parts of the city.
>
> Nice full size of original
> http://www.tate.org.uk/art/images/work/AR/AR01193_10.jpg
>
> On 8 April 2016 at 22:39, Alex Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> Been attempting to compose a longer piece on my silly blog about Mike
>> Coles' iconic artwork for the fist Killing Joke album, and it got me
>> thinking ..... does that very spot (the wall depicted in the shot)....
>> still exist today?
>>
>> As I understand it (and please jump in if you know more), the original
>> photograph by revered war photographer Don McCullin was snapped circa 1971
>> in an area known as The Bogside in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It
>> depicts a "gang of boys" fleeing a CS gas attack .... as one would.
>>
>> I cannot help wondering if that wall is still standing, moreover if
>> anyone has tracked it down to do a sort "then and now" juxtaposition.
>>
>> I first spotted the original McCullin photo in a huge book several years
>> back in a photo book store in SoHo, NY (sadly long gone ... now a lingerie
>> emporium) and letting out an audible gasp. I remember being disappointed
>> that it did not, in fact, feature the words KILLING JOKE scrawled
>> menacingly across the brickface.
>>
>> Are there any Irish Gatherers who might know more?
>>
>> -Alex in NYC
>>
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