One Word Sunday
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Silent Sunday
A narrow strip of blue sky
Six Word Saturday
The Dame,the Financier and the station that never was
I already knew of one of the protagonists of this story, but not the other and only recently learnt how their opposing views created an anomaly on the London Underground system. Let me start by introducing them. Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett, was an English social reformer, educationist, and author. She and her husband, Samuel Augustus Barnett… Continue reading The Dame,the Financier and the station that never was
Thursday Doors
Wordless Wednesday
Teal
One Word Sunday
Silent Sunday
It’s now as clear as mud!
Six Word Saturday It should read Abchurch Yard leading to King William Street
Owen’s Fields
The entrance to this small park was once the entrance to a school playground that separated Dame Alice Owen’s Girls’ School and Owen’s Boys’ School and is now known as Owen’s Field in Clerkenwell. The girl’s school was built in 1890 and was a substantial building with underground cellars. At the outbreak of the Second… Continue reading Owen’s Fields
A LONDON MISCELLANY 