In March 2026, CollectConnect artists exhibited a selection of mobiles in the Pink Tardis Gallery, Heathway Shopping Centre, Dagenham.
The theme, Flight, reflected Dagenham’s history of aviation. In the early 1900s, the Royal Aeronautical Society established a test facility for prototypes and experimental flying machines near Dagenham Dock. Several machines were built at Dagenham, including a quadruplane designed by Baden Baden-Powell, brother of Robert, the scouting founder.
A dedicated writer created a response to each of the 17 mobiles exhibited in the Pink Tardis Gallery.
CollectConnect is a caring cooperative of artists who organise art shows along the principle of participation and inclusion. They often exhibit outside of traditional gallery spaces where people can encounter art in public places.
Flight Art and words reflecting Dagenham’s history of aviation Francesca Albini, Eskild Beck, Dean Reddick, Alban Low, Bryan Benge, Oscar Newcombe, Melanie Honebone, Stella Tripp, Chris Brown, Alison Stirling, Natalie Low, Ed Arantus, Jack Low, Diya Sengupta, Ginny Reddick, Dom O’Reilly, Bella Weerasinghe, Katerina Koulouri, Simon Tyrrell, Keziah Reddick Published 2026 ISBN 978-1-915505-60-6 A6 Size 28 printed pages Colour Chapbook 52 SLB0273 BUY Flight (£3.99 + £1.20 P&P)
A special thank you to Katja Rosenberg of Art Catcher.
Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low, poet and artist respectively, first worked together as part of the Camarade project organised by poet and curator SJ Fowler in October 2023. The Camarade series explores collaboration between poets, taking the form of events which pair writers to produce and premiere new collaborative poems or artworks, to be performed live.
This pamphlet is part of that collaboration and performance.
INVITATION TO ELSEWHERE Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low Published October 2023 ISBN 978-1-915505-32-3 A6 Size 16 printed pages Colour Camarade Poetry Series 1 SLB0245 Price – £2.99 BUY INVITATION TO ELSEWHERE (£2.99 + £1.20 P&P)
This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2022. The pieces included were selected from over 100+ entries to a competition run in Spring 2022. Entrants were asked to write about “Healing Trees” as poems or stories in 250 words or fewer.
The theme of “Healing Trees” was set by our previous winners: Chris Cuninghame for poetry and Sarah Wheeler for prose. They chose the theme as they felt it was pertinent to these challenging times and wanted entrants to reveal “the power of trees to heal themselves and us, to contribute to well-being and to sustain ecosystems.”
They also volunteered to be judges in this year’s competition, joined on the poetry side by Anita Roy, writer, editor and environmentalist, and on the prose side by N.G. Bristow, a screen writer, director and visual artist, rooted at Goldsmiths University of London, where he runs the MA in Directing Fiction.
Canopy 3 An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022 Nancy Charley, Sally Duffin, M.L. Grieve, Daniel Harwood, Gina Headden, Jude Higgins, Rosaleen Lynch, Cheryl Markosky, Jackie Morrison, Sara Stegen, Laurence Sullivan and Joanna Wolfarth Published May 2022 ISBN 978-1-915505-07-1 A6 Size 24 printed pages Colour Museum of Walking Chapbook 12 SLB0220 Price – £4.99 BUY Canopy 3 (£4.99 + £1.20 P&P)
The area is dominated by orchestral musicians during the 1930s. The suburb was growing at this time, with railway stations opening at Berrylands (1933) and Tolworth (1938). It was the home of two of the greatest exponents of their respective instruments: Charles Draper (The Grandfather of English Clarinettists) and Jack Mackintosh (The Cornet King).
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in Tolworth, Berrylands and Surbiton. This book contains a map and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names.
Laurence Lumley-Holmes (flute) – 111 Surbiton Hill Park, KT5
Charles D. Matthews (clarinet) – 73 The Ridings, Berrylands KT5 8HH
The Berrylands Hotel – 107 Chiltern Drive, KT5 8LS
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from 1930s Musician’s Union handbooks. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Alban Low is a London-based artist. He co-hosts The Vinyl Thread on Radio Nope, and is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London. http://www.albanlow.com
Thank you to M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper Archives; The National Archives; The Community Brain; Robin Hutchinson; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Sophie Darling, Norman Druker, Lucas Keen); Radio Nope (Bob, Conan, Deb & Brian); the Furlong family; and my wife Natalie.
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in and around Crouch End and Stroud Green. This book contains a map and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names.
Leonard Day (organ/piano) – 38 Haslemere Rd, N8 9RB
Richard Walton (trumpet) – 1 Haringey Park, Crouch End, N8 9JG Bernard Walton Jnr (clarinet) George Walton (cello) Bernard Walton (harp) John Walton (bass)
Walter Paskin (producer) – 8 Sandringham Gardens, N8 9HU
Francis Hughes (clarinet) – 5 Derwent Court, Cecile Park, N8 9AT
David Wolfsthal (violin) – 82 Stapleton Hall Rd, Stroud Green, N4 4EH
George Orrell (violin) – 18 Albany Rd, Stroud Green, N4
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from 1930s Musician’s Union handbooks. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Alban Low is a London-based artist. He co-hosts The Vinyl Thread on Radio Nope, and is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London. http://www.albanlow.com
Thank you to M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper Archives; The National Archives; BBC; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling, Lucas Keen); Radio Nope (Bob, Conan, Deb & Brian); and my wife Natalie.
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in and around Lewisham, Brockley and New Cross. This book contains a map and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names.
1. Alexander Gifford (piano/organ) – 25 Granville Park, Blackheath, SE13 7DY 2.Cyril Cyphus (organ) – 16 Belmont Grove, Blackheath, SE13 5DW 3.Frederick Dumayne (singer/conductor) – 46 Caterham Rd, Blackheath, SE13 5AR 4.Les Perry (flute/bandleader) – 55 Lee High Rd, SE13 5NS 5.Gaumont Palace – Junction of Molesworth Street and Rennell Street, SE13 6.Freddie Finch (trumpet) – 18 Jerrard St, Lewisham SE13 7TA 7.Stanley Stray (piano) – 28 Sandrock Rd, Lewisham, SE13 7TS 8.Franklyn White (violin) – 66 Loampit Hill Lewisham, SE13 7SX 9.Arthur Kipps (organ) – 3 Darling Rd, SE4 1YQ 10.Art Jennings (saxophone) – 26A Tressillian Rd, SE4 1YB 11. Walter Stiasny (conductor) and Sylvia Patriss (vocalist) – 55 Tressillian Rd, London SE4 1YA 12.Edward Swingler (flute) – 94 Tressillian Rd, SE4 1YD 13.Peter Wise (accordion) – 80 Wickham Rd, Brockley, SE4 1LS 14.William Lodge (saxophone/violin) – 81 Millmark Grove, Brockley, SE14 6RH 15.Stanley Van Raalte (piano) – 102 St Donatts Rd, SE14 6NT 16.Goldsmiths Music Studios – 286 New Cross Road, SE14 6AF 17.Steve Gauna (guitar) – 21 Jerningham Rd, New Cross, SE14 5NQ 18.New Cross Kinema – 325-327 New Cross Road, SE14 6JP 19.New Cross Empire – 483-485 New Cross Road, SE14 6TQ
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from 1930s Musician’s Union handbooks. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Alban Low is a London-based artist. He co-hosts The Vinyl Thread on Radio Nope, and is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London. www.albanlow.com
Thank you to M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper Archives; The National Archives; BBC; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Sophie Darling, Lucas Keen); Radio Nope (Bob, Conan, Deb & Brian); Norman and Tom Druker; George, Maggie and Felix; and my wife Natalie.
Robots stagger from oil bars Back to ships to cast off, Headed out to Mars and stars… Three, two, one — and blast off!
Robots and Rockets Poems of Science Fiction Geoffrey A. Landis, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Robert Laughlin, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Bruce McGuffin, Maryann Corbett, Nina Parmenter, F.J. Bergmann, Marcus Bales, A.E. Stallings, Julia Griffin and Martin Elster Published April 2021 Series Editor Robin Helweg-Larsen Illustrated by Alban Low ISBN 978-1-912960-68-2 A6 Size 16 printed pages Colour Potcake Chapbook 9 SLB181 Print run of 250 Price – £2.60 BUY Robots and Rockets to a UK address (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P) BUY Robots and Rockets to a non-UK address (£2.60 + £2.20 P&P)
The “Potcake Chapbook” series is named for the dogs of the Bahamas and the Caribbean – strays that live off the burnt scrapings of cooking pots. The poems in the series are a mixed bunch – but the potcake of our logo wears a bow tie to show that he and all the poems are formal. These poems are memorable in part because they rhyme and scan, as all truly memorable poetry does. We subscribe to the use of form, no matter how formless the times in which we live.
A house, or a flat or apartment–we move in with expectations, hopes and dreams… we live with realities, difficulties, problems… and we look back and reflect on it with nostalgia, gratitude. A home is part of who we are.
Houses and Homes Forever Poems of where we live Marcus Bales, A.E. Stallings, Jennifer Reeser, D A Prince, Kathy Lundy Derengowski, Kate Bernadette Benedict, Maryann Corbett, Ann Drysdale, Melissa Balmain, Nina Parmenter, Daniel Galef, Tom Vaughan Published December 2020 Series Editor Robin Helweg-Larsen Illustrated by Alban Low ISBN 978-1-912960-63-7 A6 Size 16 printed pages Colour Potcake Chapbook 8 SLB176 Print run of 250 Price – £2.60 BUY Houses and Homes Forever to a UK or European address (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P) BUY Houses and Homes Forever to a Worldwide address (£2.60 + £2.20 P&P)
The “Potcake Chapbook” series is named for the dogs of the Bahamas and the Caribbean – strays that live off the burnt scrapings of cooking pots. The poems in the series are a mixed bunch – but the potcake of our logo wears a bow tie to show that he and all the poems are formal. These poems are memorable in part because they rhyme and scan, as all truly memorable poetry does. We subscribe to the use of form, no matter how formless the times in which we live.
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in and around Victoria and Pimlico. This chapbook shows the houses they lived in and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names.
1930s Musicians of Victoria and Pimlico
Alban Low Published January 2020
ISBN 978-1-912960-35-4
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
A World in London Chapbook 8
SLB0148
Print run of 100
Price – £2.60 BUY 1930s Musicians of Victoria and Pimlico (£2.60 + £1.20 P & P)
1. Harry Blech (violin) and Frederick Riddle (viola) – 17 Sloane Gardens, Chelsea, SW1W 8EB 2. Charles Bohm (saxophone) – 120 Ebury St, Victoria, SW1W 9QQ
3. Victoria Coach Station and Imperial Airways Terminal – Buckingham Palace Rd, Victoria, SW1W 9SP
4. Edwin Heffren (drums) – 52 Hugh St, Pimlico, London SW1V 4ER
5. New Victoria Theatre – 17 Wilton Rd, Pimlico, SW1V 1LG
6. Leslie Wharton (piano) – 77 Vauxhall Bridge Road, SW1V 2SP
7. Clem Lawton (tuba and bass) – 46 Tachbrook St, Pimlico, SW1V 2NA
8. George Bainbridge Robinson (Musical Director) – 57 Warwick Square, Pimlico, SW1V 2AJ
9. Fred Morrison (violin) – 52 Gloucester St, Pimlico, SW1V 4EH
10. George Newman (saxophone) and Jose Martello (accordion) – 130A Cambridge St, Pimlico, SW1V 4QF
11. Charles Rooks (organ) – 95 Cambridge St, Pimlico, SW1V 4PY
12. Wilfred Banks (Bandleader) – 7 Sussex St, Pimlico, SW1V 4RZ
13. Wally Sykes (drums) – 44 Cumberland St, SW1V 4LZ
14. Cecil Alexander (violin) – 77 Charlwood St, Pimlico, SW1V
15. George Latimer (trombone) – 80 St George’s Drive, Pimlico, SW1V 4BZ
16. George Newman (saxophone) – 57 Charlwood St, Pimlico, SW1V 2DR
17. Roy Peverett (cello) – Flat 308, Hood House, Dolphin Square
18. Billy Bissett (Bandleader) – 10 Collingwood House, Dolphin Sq, SW1V 3ND
19. Oswald Boyden Waldo Warner (violin) – 701 Beatty House, Dolphin Square, SW1V 3PN 20. Bertram Lewis (violin) – 405 Howard House, Dolphin Sq, SW1V 3PF
Alban Low is a London based artist who illustrates album artwork, publishes books, designs maps, and organises inclusive exhibitions. He is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London with DJ Ritu. http://www.albanlow.com/
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from Musician’s Union handbooks from the 1930s. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Thank you to Roy Cooke; M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives; Michael Peverett; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper Archives; The National Archives; BBC; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Sophie Darling, Norman Druker, Lucas Keen, Patrick Bernard); The Gramophone Record Store; and my wife Natalie.
Puns and puzzles, poems that can be read vertically or in reverse, wordplay in a variety of forms… but, yes, all formal poems, stuffed full of rhyme, rhythm and rich language.
The “Potcake Chapbook” series is named for the dogs of the Bahamas and the Caribbean – strays that live off the burnt scrapings of cooking pots. The poems in the series are a mixed bunch – but the potcake of our logo wears a bow tie to show that he and all the poems are formal. These poems are memorable in part because they rhyme and scan, as all truly memorable poetry does. We subscribe to the use of form, no matter how formless the times in which we live.
Wordplayful Poems to amuse and amaze
Bob McKenty, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Sam Gwynn, Dervla Ramaswamy, John Beaton, George Simmers, A.E. Stallings, Daniel Galef, Rob Stuart, Noam D. Plum, Marcus Bales, Chris O’Carroll, Edmund Conti Published January 2020
Series Editor Robin Helweg-Larsen
Illustrated by Alban Low
ISBN 978-1-912960-32-3
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Potcake Chapbook 6
SLB145
Print run of 250
Price – £2.60 BUY Wordplayful to a UK or European address (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P) BUY Wordplayful to a Worldwide address (£2.60 + £2.20 P&P)
Sampson Low 