Shambles is a term for an open air slaughterhouse and meat market. Streets of that name were so called from having been the sites on which butchers killed and dressed animals for consumption. As far as I can ascertain there are only about ten streets or areas left in the UK that are known as “The Shambles”. Manchester has one as do Sevenoaks,… Continue reading What a Shambles
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Blue dots in Green Park Station
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On a wing and a prayer
Six Word Saturday Situated on Old Broad Street in the area of Austin Friars. It’s nice but why it’s there and what it has to say I have no idea.
Ship Ahoy! in Shaftesbury Avenue?
“….that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” I believe is a lyric by Joni Mitchell and very succinct when applied to the rather tatty looking shop premises in the picture. Shaftesbury Avenue, which is where this shop is located slices diagonally through the fringes of Covent Garden, Soho and Chinatown to end… Continue reading Ship Ahoy! in Shaftesbury Avenue?
Philpot Lane (No Mice)
A few posts ago I took a look at a quirky piece of art that adorns the wall of a building on Philpot Lane and so as I was there so to speak, I thought I’d take a look at the lane itself. In the late fourteen hundreds the lane was known as St Andrew… Continue reading Philpot Lane (No Mice)
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The Last Rays Of The Day
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The Philpot Lane Mice
Question: What is the smallest piece of public art within the City of London? To answer that question let me take you back to the 1860s and the redevelopment of Eastcheap, the street that runs east from the Monument towards the Tower of London. The block adjoining Philpot Lane was demolished and the architect Robert Lewis… Continue reading The Philpot Lane Mice
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One Word Sunday
A LONDON MISCELLANY 