...this is a picture I took in 1985, not a good one, obviously. I just found it the other day. It's the electricity substation on the jitty between Carsington Crescent and Kedleston Road in Derby ('jitty' being East Midlands slang for alley or ginnel). I used to walk past this a lot as a kid, on my way into town or down to the bus stop. And the words 'Mackworth Tich Boot Boys' have stuck in my head over the years, while not making any sense to me. And I've only just figured out that they're actually two separate bits of graffiti stuck, accidentally, together. It must be quite old graffiti too, it was written there for as long as I remember it. And I think of Boot Boys as a 60s or 70s phenomenon, not of the 80s. But I could be wrong.
Anyway, the other day, I was walking past there again and took this with my iPhone. It's the same substation, with fresh, not much more competent graffiti. Though of course now the picture is geotagged, uploaded and out in the wild. So this picture anchors the history of the other one on the map.