Six Word Saturday A bit early for Halloween and obviously its not a ghost it’s me. I was trying to get a picture of the remains of Whitefriars Monastery which is hidden away below office buildings near to Fleet Street and is behind thick glass. The order was founded in what is now Israel in… Continue reading A Slightly Fat Bald Ghostly Apparition
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ABC of City of London Wards
This is the forth post about the wards that make up the the City of London. These links will take you to the post about Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bassishaw. The City of London is divided into 25 wards. These wards are a survival of the medieval governmental system that allowed very small areas to exist as self-governing units within the… Continue reading ABC of City of London Wards
Learn to talk proper
I recently came by a fascinating old book called Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase (published 1909) written by James Redding Ware, the pseudonym of Andrew Forrester a British writer who created one of the first female detectives in literary history in his book The Female Detective (1863). The… Continue reading Learn to talk proper
Rain
One word Sunday Looking out along Cromwell Road on a rather wet autumn evening.
Climbing An Old Stairway To Heaven
Six Word Saturday Milford Lane stands on a very ancient thoroughfare that ran from the Thames up to the Strand near the area of the Temple. When you reach the top you find yourself not in heaven but in Essex Street, turn to look back at the steps and you see one of the grandest… Continue reading Climbing An Old Stairway To Heaven
The Monster Of London
There have been many violent and disturbing crimes committed in the Capital over the centuries, some single incidents, and others of a more serial nature. The latter attract much more attention, sometimes with the culprits achieving cult status. Obviously Jack the Ripper is usually the first to come to mind, along with latter-day perpetrators, John… Continue reading The Monster Of London
Not Avenues, but Alleyways
There’s nothing more exciting for me than discovering a new alleyway or court in London, so much so that I document each one on a Google Map with as much information as I can find on it. It may look like there’s a lot of pins on the map, but the reality is that the… Continue reading Not Avenues, but Alleyways
Thomas Cubitt
Today you have companies like Balfour Beatty and the Kear Group who predominately do most of the construction work in the UK, but back in the early 19th century there were no massive firms that undertook building projects, that was until Thomas Cubitt came along. During the early 19th century parts of London were going… Continue reading Thomas Cubitt
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The Gods look down from above
Six word Saturday Once the home of the London & Westminster Bank (Temple Bar branch), 222 The Strand was known as London’s most beautiful bank. Latterly it was a branch of Lloyds Bank, but early in 2020 it had been bought by the pub chain Wetherspoons with a view to conversion. It remains closed with… Continue reading The Gods look down from above
A LONDON MISCELLANY 