Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician. Wilson served as Commandant of the Staff College, Camberley, and then as Director of Military Operations at the War Office. He played a large part in drawing up plans to deploy the British Expeditionary Force to France… Continue reading Political Assassination in Belgravia
Tag: London
That’s one in the eye
Last week footsore and a little disheveled, finding myself on Fleet Steet I decided to take a breather in one of my favourite places in the city, Fountain Court in the Temple. I’d published an audio tour around the Temple a couple of years agovoicemap.me/temple but I must admit that I hadn’t listened to it… Continue reading That’s one in the eye
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
The Pepperers
No, not some obscure 1970s animated children’s TV series with characters made from pepper pots (That’s an idea, perhaps I could pitch it to Cbeebies) but a group of merchants that inhabited the City of London in the early 1100s In last Friday’s post, I expressed my fondness for the 1893 OS map of London… Continue reading The Pepperers
Cartophilia
I’m a Cartophile loud and proud and don’t care who knows it. Sound dramatic, but actually its only the love of maps. Old or new I can spend long periods of time perusing them without any plan in mind. If you can have such a thing, one of my favourites and an item I would… Continue reading Cartophilia
1984 and all that
I’ve been catching up on my reading lately, George Orwell in particular. I’d read Animal Farm at school and hadn’t thought much of it until years later when I reread it and started to understand what was going on. I know exactly when I read 1984 it was in 1984, due mostly to the film… Continue reading 1984 and all that
Explain it to the old man
I’ve always thought that I’m pretty up to date as far as life in general is concerned. I may not understand how things like AI work but I can use it (Always nice to have someone to chat to when her indoors is away). Music? Well it’s all been down hill since about 1984 so… Continue reading Explain it to the old man
The best seats in the house
St Bartholomew’s Gatehouse in Cloth Fair is definitely a fine old Elizabethan building. Well that’s not strictly true. It is and it isn’t. The framework is, but the exterior has been restored, but that doesn’t make it any the less interesting. If it hadn’t been for Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Mathy the commander of a First World… Continue reading The best seats in the house
Den of Thieves
The title of this piece wasn’t hard to come up with, however I wasn’t sure what the source was. It actually comes from the Bible. Well in this, the Den of Thieves is known as a Patter-Free Lumber. There were many of these dotted around London, one of them was located at 23 New Boswell… Continue reading Den of Thieves
Who had the Lamb Bhuna?
Fancy a curry? Today you’ll be spoilt for choice, takeaways and restaurants have proliferate on our high streets for many years, but how far back would you have to go before finding it almost impossible to get your favourite dish? The answer is probably a lot earlier than you might be thinking. The Hindoostane Coffee… Continue reading Who had the Lamb Bhuna?