Alchemy Culture Shop
London's oldest Culture Shop!!
November 29, 2011
Alchemy: London’s oldest Culture Shop!
“Alchemy, the most classic of headshops, which seems to be a catalyst for synchronistic creativities. All the heads, beautiful people, shakers, takers, brain benders & menders, gurus, rastas, ascended masters, travellers, seers, see ers, starseed extraterrestrials, and whatever else lives and breathes in London seems to find its way to that colourful emporium of all things alchemical” … Drezz Dressler
“I’d started off in the West End as an anarchist trader selling psychedelic posters in the late sixties. I ended up in the Portobello Road, making chokers and selling chillums. I had traded at many festivals so it was natural for me and I started to become a sort of medicine head. Almost everyone I knew was coming back from India, bringing all these exotic objects like balms, and patchouli oils and incense”…Lee Harris
Lee Harris (born 1936 in Johannesburg, South Africa), is a playwright, publisher, and spoken word artist. He was one of the few white members of the Congress movement, where he helped with the Congress of the People and met Nelson Mandela. He acted with Orson Welles, Dame Flora Robson, wrote for the British underground press including International Times, helped found the Arts Lab and has been an instrumental figure in the British Counter Culture movement since the seventies when he published the legendary Brainstorm Comix by illustrator & graphic novelist Bryan Talbot and Home Grown magazine, which he also edited.
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