An attempt to operate as a curious tourist in your own backyard. The book guides the reader to sites in London where fleeting and memorable things have been noticed but are no longer there. It is an anti-guidebook in the sense of memorials and palaces. Its footnotes guide the reader around the bibliography, which has been walked as meanderingly as the streets.

I find the long history of wandering and observing a rather male-dominated affair, and there is that disconnected way of viewing public space, not to mention the photographic stance of capturing the world through the lens. How to expand on this practice? To involve and talk with people I met, sometimes to initiate impossible projects with strangers, to ask them to send me pictures . Over the period of a year, I took time every time I went out to approach people in the street for stories of things they might have seen that aren’t always there, things that are transient or that happen only now and again e.g.. It might be a puddle that only appears when there is so much rain, a homemade raft under Blackfriars Bridge, or a dropped ice cream on the pavement. I gathered anecdotes, images, drawings and some interesting encounters and made a book , like a guidebook that works alphabetically by area, but almost an anti-guidebook in that many other things wouldn’t be there if you went back to find them. I also didn’t want the book to be seen as the end of the project, something too final, but a tool to use to explore London, or anywhere in fact, in a different way. We organised some walking tours over the weekend of the book’s launch. They were given by contributors to the book, and in a way attempted to continue the live process I had been through to accumulate the contents of the book.

• Book as pdf, 222 pages
• Working notes (scans)
• Audio – evaluative chat with Katie Murphy
• Miscellaneous paraphernalia
• Business card
• Audio – radio Robert Elmes show
• Audio – evaluative chat – Janice Mclaren
• Audio – conversations with Neil Chapman re. editing process
• Audio – launch panel discussion
• A1 working drawings
• Large green book