On the south east corner of Covent garden was an area in the 17th century that was known as the “Hummums“ The term crops up in several different places, diaries. letters etc from the 18th & 19th centuries and at first I thought it was the name of the people who owned the establishment that… Continue reading Humumm’s
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Rush
One word Sunday
Summer in light, Winter in shade
Six word Saturday
Stumped!
Ok, so not the most inspiring photo, but as they say, “Every picture tells a story”. What you’re looking at here was the proposed site for the London terminus of the Great Central Railway in the 1890s. An enterprising businessman, Frank Crocker somehow got wind of these proposals and realising that the terminus would need… Continue reading Stumped!
Bucolic Bonnington Square
Bonnington Square in Vauxhall was built during the 1870s. Only a “six” away from the Oval cricket ground it comprised compact neat rows of London brick houses surrounding a central double terrace primarily used to house railway workers who were employed at Nine Elms Goods Yard close by. Booth’s map has the square marked as… Continue reading Bucolic Bonnington Square
Dining with Baron Beaverbrook
One of my favourite blogs is the photographer Debbie Smyth’s Travel With Intent. She recently posted a great photograph of the Daily Express building on Fleet Street, which brought to mind an anecdote that my Dad told me. It would have been in the early 1970s and his uncle worked at the Express. My Dad… Continue reading Dining with Baron Beaverbrook
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One word Sunday The chimney on the former Bankside power station (Now the Tate Modern) My partners Mum & Dad had their first date at the top of the chimney when the power station was being constructed in 1952
Seeing things from a different perspective
Six word Saturday
Sorry, no fish today
Had the luxury of travelling on a bus a few weeks ago from Victoria to Charing Cross. I call it a luxury because it give a different perspective from pavement level when you sit upstairs (at the front pretending to be the driver obviously). Instead of sitting on the Westminster Abbey side I went for… Continue reading Sorry, no fish today
The Dog’s Nose
“Mr Walker, a convert to the Brick Lane branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association, thought that tasting Dog’s Nose twice a week for 20 years had lost him the use of his right hand.” The passage comes from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. At first I thought it was perhaps some… Continue reading The Dog’s Nose
A LONDON MISCELLANY 