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Quality Street

A rare view of Buckingham Street, by John Niemann, 1854, where Dickens lived briefly in 1834. David Copperfield lived here too. Note the York Water Gate in the background, still visible today. n a little backwater [...]

Cabbie’s Monopoly – Part V

Now we have visited most streets and squares on my Cabbies’ Monopoly board, it’s time now to build a house. The houses in the true 1930s Monopoly fashion should be semi-detached with bay windows with the [...]

Cabbie’s Monopoly – Part IV

Returning again to the 1930’s Monopoly set that I discovered in the attic. This time it’s all about money ‘Pass Go and Collect £200′, £200 doesn’t seem much today, but remember you can buy Mayfair from [...]

Cabbie’s Monopoly – Part III

Here is another CabbieBlog excursion into my old 1930s Monopoly set that I found in the attic, this time crime and punishment is featured in our less enlightened times. Take the punishment meted out to banker [...]

Regency Retail Park

If you should jump into a London cab and direct the driver to Locks he should drive you to number 6 St. James’s Street. That is according to the website of London’s most famous hatters, James [...]

Cabbie’s Monopoly – Part II

You can tell that Monopoly was devised in a more relaxed and gentler age. This, our second trip into Cabbie’s Monopoly, we find a square entitled ‘Free Parking’; for in the 21st century free parking for [...]

Cabbie’s Monopoly – Part I

While rummaging through my attic recently by chance I came upon an old pre-war Monopoly set once owned by my parents. Monopoly is a redesign of an earlier game “The Landlord’s Game”, first published by the [...]

Formerly Of Alley

Formerly Of Alley

This little alley close to Charing Cross Station commemorates York House which once occupied a 7-acre site overlooking the river Thames. Originally owned until the Dissolution in 1536 by the Bishops of Norwich, Henry VIII then [...]