Puppydog tails
Tart Cards
Another function of telephone boxes has been to advertise 'adult' services [...]
Bismarck’s Bench
A delighted Bismarck was given a half-flagon full of their finest [...]
Killed by a cab
When it was finished, the good colonel dashed across the roads to admire his creation, tripped and was bowled over by a cab [...]
The Knowledge, The Play
The producers would have to be possessed with the tenacity and belief in their project, as any aspiring student of The Knowledge, to achieve their badge [...]
Parliamentary peculiars
Anomalies are to be found in the Palace of Westminster [...]
Orange Cab
old cabs never die [...]
Mummified Londoners
The real head was displayed in the same case for many years, but became the target of repeated student pranks including being stolen on more than one occasion [...]
Taxed beyond death
Here are a few of London's strangest payments of tax [...]
A culinary classic
Wilton’s is the oldest restaurant in London [...]
Rolling Stone
London’s most travelled artefact has moved yet again. London Stone, a Grade II* chunk of limestone some 20″ wide, 16″ high and 17″ deep of a substance (oolitic) that is not local to the London area [...]
The Knowledge on stage
The Charing Cross Theatre, for a limited season, has brought this very funny play to a London stage.
Climb aboard
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Regular bloggery from a Black London Licensed Cabbie.
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The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945 by Laurence Ward
If you love London and maps this is for you. A full set of maps made up of 110 hand-coloured 1:2500 Ordnance Survey base sheets originally published in 1916 and updated by the LCC to 1940. Because they use the 1916 map, they give us a glimpse of a ‘lost London’, before post-war redevelopment schemes began to shape the modern city. The colouring applied to the maps records a scale of damage to London’s built environment during the war – the most detailed and complete survey of destruction caused by the aerial bombardment.
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Bismarck's Bench
Follow the link that's what the brewers claim.
Bismarck's Bench
Two things.First thing, thanks for reminding me about the "Courage
Bismarck's Bench
I think Bismarck was even before The Knowledge. All I've done is watch
Bismarck's Bench
Another excellent article. Almost sounds like you were there.
The Lions of London
They never taught me any of that at Hornchurch Grammar School!