Uniform

In summer 2018 SPC adopted The Uniform Room of Old Police Station, Deptford from where we operated SPC, continued project development and community network support for subscribers until it’s closure in May 2021 for building refurbishment.

We spent a very comfortable 3 years in the ladies uniform room on the second floor thanks to our hosts Temporary Contemporary. We are very sad to have recently heard from the family of their founder, Anthony Gross, that he died of cancer early January 2022. We met when he first opened OPS over a decade ago and SPC advised reactivation of the building wide network access to OWN and latterly to high speed fibre services.

The haul of SPC equipment, tools and media library up and down those stairs continued well after the round up the materials dropped into to basements and backrooms around the area during the quick exodus from Borough Hall at end of April 2018. It’s been a great opportunity to review the collection of ephemera, artist titles and tools, to sort the selected cables, computer parts and AV equipment of 3 decades toil into shape. Much of the archive has been relocated to Spoke showroom in Dover where the work continues.

It was a intriguing building that remained relatively untouched since the police built and then moved into their new accommodation right next door. Over 40 studio spaces including five 20ft containers in the yard will be giving way to 20 new homes and a ground floor Access Arts Centre in construction.