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After hours surrounded by sheets of paper, the installation is in place and the catalogue complete. I now await the reactions of others, I’m especially eager and nervous to hear what the ex-residents of Carlton Mansions think. I want to know the items they remember, and how they will frame these fragmented traces - what knowledge will they bring to the pieces that struck me most. 
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An added element - the vitrine. Parallel to the paper installation this vitrine will host some of the boxes of the actual archival material and the more ordered outcome such as the catalogue document and accompanying timeline. 
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The less romantic side of creating a catalogue is trying to create some kind of order amid mixed papers, subtle cross-overs, and excel sheets. 
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Archivists’ mugs - away from the papers
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The beginnings of a continuing battle. Here within the collection the connection to location is clear. The politics of space, development and change are palpable and connected to the very location in which I am sorting through and cataloging these papers.
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Amidst the specifics of running CM, the collection contains clear reminders of the wider political context impacting Brixton in the final years of its existence. The narrative of gentrification is strong in official, anecdotal and satirical items within the collection.
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The image on this policy document shifted my understanding of short-life housing. From my initial engagement with the collection and first readings around squatting, I presumed that short-life housing was largely a policy aimed at single adults. But, on reading more, the idea of legitimised squats and autonomous housing was born out of a squatters movement that’s aims were often to keep vulnerable families living together. Ron Bailey’s book ‘The Squatters’, published in the 70s gives context to this. 
Though a rosy picture here, the gradual and eventual withdrawal of short-life means this vision was never realised. 
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The tensions over space and council cuts are palpable from the area around Lambeth Archives. These posters, now aged, still adorn the window - tired looking now. 
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The debris goes beyond paper - these boxes and files bare the traces of time and a status existence in boxes in back rooms.
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Restoration Details
A detailed journal on the daily repairs taking place.
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Single, homeless and desperate for housing
A snippet of an application letter to Carlton Mansions
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Archival Regulations - Correctly 
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Polly Put-the-kettle-on-Toynbee
cuttings in amongst house minute and more official papers
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