In my last post I gave a mention to the church of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside. This is the church that appears in the nursery rhyme, Oranges and Lemons. Post war archaeological digs showed that there was a church on the site in Saxon times. During the medieval period the church was redeveloped… Continue reading That’s a Moray
Tag: Walking
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One Word Sunday
Dazed and confused
Sometimes London can leave me feeling slightly bemused, it is a city of contradictions, double meanings and inconsistency, but I always think that I’m in a much better position to understand these than those who don’t know the capital just as well. A long time ago I posted a piece called name theory on mispronunciation… Continue reading Dazed and confused
A heavy burden to be carrying
Six word Saturday
Gimme Shelter
Not quite subterranean as in below the earth, but none the less below street level is the story of the tunnels that once lay beneath the area today known as Adelphi which sits in between Charing Cross station and the Savoy Hotel. The northern fringes of the park area in the photograph were prior to… Continue reading Gimme Shelter
What a Shambles
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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One Word Sunday
Blue dots in Green Park Station
Six Word Saturday
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)
A LONDON MISCELLANY 