Six Word Saturday
Author: endean0
Hi, I'm Steve, a London tour guide and owner of A London Miscellany Tours, a guided walking tour company who specialise in small number tours of the greatest city in the world!
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This weeks post is a short one (thankfully) and was instigated by a photograph that I found in an archive. I’ll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Unexpected
One Word Sunday The windows of the London Metropolitan Archives, Clerkenwell The lady in the main picture is a “Nippy”. The nickname for the waitresses who worked in the J. Lyons & Co tea shops and cafés in London.
She loved him warts and all
Six Word Saturday
The God of requited love and the policeman
Following on from last weeks post The Angel of Christian Charity I left you with a teaser. In different circumstances the area of Piccadilly Circus and the famous statue that’s located there could have looked very different today. I also posed a question. Could you name a member, serving or otherwise of the Metropolitan Police’… Continue reading The God of requited love and the policeman
The Angel of Christian Charity
Let’s start with a quick question. Unless you know or are related to one, how many members, serving or otherwise, of the Metropolitan Police CID can you name? I’ll leave you to ponder that one. The other day having decamped at Charing Cross railway station I decided to alter my usual route and wandered up… Continue reading The Angel of Christian Charity
The church, the rocket and Round the Horne
It’s strange, you think you know somewhere and then out of the blue a fact turns up and the location takes on a different vibe. Take the area in the middle of the map above. Whitfield Gardens is a small communal space bordering Tottenham Court Road and Tottenham Street and I know it well. However,… Continue reading The church, the rocket and Round the Horne
“Whether they be in need of a clean or not”
I recently came across a story while I was researching a new audio tour set in the area of Clerkenwell. I’ve included it here as there were a couple of things that made me chuckle. When it comes to a pint I’m definitely in the straight or sleeve glass camp, not for me the chunky… Continue reading “Whether they be in need of a clean or not”
Bacon Mania
Bacon, I’m lead to believe was invented by the Chinese, who salted pork belly to aid it’s keeping around 1500 BCE. Before the Industrial Revolution, Britain’s bacon was generally produced on local farms and in domestic kitchens, pigs were routinely kept in basements and cellars until a law was passed outlawing the practice in the 1930s.… Continue reading Bacon Mania
Tech no logy
I’ll keep this one brief, it’s just an ask on my part to you the reader. Having spent quite a lot of time updating the audio tour website, A London Miscellany Tours, I expected to be able to link in automatically a couple of hundred subscribers for the tour site’s Facebook page. Grrrrrr. It’s not… Continue reading Tech no logy
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