In response to an arguably alarmist article from the Evening Standard about how George Orwell’s London home is now surrounded by CCTV cameras, MetaFilter user cillit bang visited the area, and tracked down and photographed the cameras.
“Of the 23 on the newspaper’s map, I found 18. Not one of them is in any way official or government run, and the vast majority are on private houses, mostly only monitoring their gardens or front yards, not the street outside. Interestingly, there was no sign of any of the ones on Canonbury Square itself.”
Top marks for effort.