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One word Sunday

To trains for Harrow and Uxbridge

Six word Saturday Taken during the last tour of TFL’s offices at 55 Broadway, soon to become a luxury hotel.

Doing the talking while you’re walking

Phew! Well that was a mammoth recording session. For those who haven’t read an earlier post Technotours the recording is for some self guided walking tours of London that I’ve recorded. The previous post highlighted the difficulties of putting my words into speech both from a technical basis and also in the narration. Happily since… Continue reading Doing the talking while you’re walking

Dark times in the Kings Road

I must admit I don’t know Chelsea very well, it’s on my “to do” list to get more familiar with it. Recently I visited the Saatchi Gallery just off Sloane Square and was vaguely aware that some of the buildings that the gallery inhabits used to be the Duke of Yorks Royal Military School. The… Continue reading Dark times in the Kings Road

Musca domestica Linnaeus

Just a quick follow on post from Wednesday’s musing on the rat infestation around the Strand in 1903. During July 1707, the 8th of July to be exact, there was if records are to be believed the culmination of a heatwave in London, and as it was a Tuesday the day went down in the… Continue reading Musca domestica Linnaeus

Rattus norvegicus

Definitely my favourite and probably the best studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1977, so the copy in my collection is now 44 years old which is a sobering thought. Anyway I digress. Rattus norvegicus is the latin name for the Brown or common rat which is the most prevalent native London rats. The… Continue reading Rattus norvegicus

Sheer Folly

Last week I posted about the debacle of the Marble Arch Mount, which got me thinking of a similar instance of abject failure over 125 years earlier. Watkin’s Tower was a partially completed viewing tower in Wembley Park. Its construction was the vision of Sir Edward Watkin the railway entrepreneur and was an ambitious project to create a 358… Continue reading Sheer Folly

Bridge

One Word Sunday Millenium Bridge, London

Reflection

One Word Sunday The spire of St Clement Danes and behind the Royal Courts of Justice on an overcast Sunday morning.

Streets, Stories and a Soft Shoe Shuffle

Now and again A London Miscellany Tour goes so well that it calls for a little celebration. After a faultless tour yesterday, where I remembered all the names and dates without reference to my notes (it was a new tour) I felt the urge to break out into a little jig.