Du Cane Court, Balham (obstruction)

Balham, gateway to the south – as Peter Sellers once said. Du Cane Court, with its own interesting history.

This is an obstruction sketch. It happens all the time in London and other cities especially, where something very lovely is obstructed by a post, a sign, a bastardised phonebox cum cash machine. The elegant rhythmic Art Deco lines of Du Cane Court interrupted by comically placed street furniture.

Sir Giles Gilbert Scott would have been amused to see his K6 phone box shape, designed in 1935, modified in this way. Du Cane Court was built two years later, in 1937.

Anyway, here’s an obstruction sketch: When the thing that’s in the way of the thing becomes the thing.

I have to stop writing now because Apple’s US-centric auto spell keeps changing Du Cane to Duane.