: ' London Olympics'
Sex and the Olympic City
When the London 2012 Olympic organisers announced that the Games would bring local jobs to the community it’s probably not what they had in mind. Major sporting events always tend to precipitate a boom in the [...]
Taking the waters
One little published event in the Olympics was the 10km Open Waters Swimming in which competitors swam around a pond. We were 4th in the women’s (just missing the bronze by less than a second) and [...]
The Only Running Footman
In Charles Street, Mayfair there remains evidence of the last vestiges of Georgian competitive running with a tentative link to the cabbies of their day. Dating from 1749 this pub has a curious name: ‘The Only [...]
A road less travelled
When announcing the hydrogen taxi scheme recently the Mayor could hardly have envisioned starting a scenario straight from the script of BBC television Twenty-Twelve. “A vision to promote innovative zero and low emission technologies in the [...]
The Olympic Legacy
Urban myth has it that every London cabbie is the oracle of all knowledge. We are often asked on how the trade is going; bankers and fund managers it would seem regard us as a barometer [...]
A Marathon read
Just how do they do it? I mean when an actor is given a major part to play, just how so they remember their lines. I only ask because last weekend a mighty 76 page tome [...]
Life imitating art – a cabbie’s diary
ith the first Olympian week drawing to a close, with the predictability of a shortage of cabs on a wet Friday night, we have had a bumper week of motoring stories. In a scenario straight from [...]
An urban idyll
At long last plans for the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony have been unveiled. Eastenders it ain’t, looking more akin to Larkrise to Candleford, with bucolic scenes of synchronised sheep herding, parallel ploughing and no doubt [...]
Rank outsiders
Try to imagine that you are an American tourist (trust me it isn’t hard). You have booked a trip to Britain and you plan to take in the capital. What goes through your mind when you [...]
The City that never wakes
ecently I was in a well known department store which has the proud boast of being ‘the official Olympic retail partner’. There a came across a whole display section given over to London 2012 paraphernalia: key [...]
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London Under by Peter Ackroyd
This is not just about the Underground, London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams to Roman amphitheatres and Victorian sewers.
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Urban philistines
A website about bridges- interesting. Thanks for your comment
Prince of Wales Lodges
Thanks my head is getting bigger as I write.
Urban philistines
Thank you again for your full and detailed comment. Best of luck with
London's hyper-local blogs
I have added Tradescant Road and South Lambeth a hyperlocal blog. Than
Welsh rare bit
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