
Pootling around London
March 06, 2018 - (0) commentsAs a bonus, for your support, each month two long-form posts from my book Pootling around London, a travelogue about riding around London exploring the capital’s traditions, tripe and trivia, whilst undertaking The Knowledge will be published on CabbieBlog exclusively for Patrons. Each includes a single ‘run’ on The Knowledge: the journey; notes and observations from the present; facts and urban myths; historical accounts of places on the route; and occasional insights

Sunday Best
December 30, 2016 - 2 CommentsI’m now posting nuggets of triviality every Sunday. Each post will have a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information.
They may be read on a weekly basis or one could dip in and out, either when collating questions for a pub quiz; bore your colleagues at work; or just to send yourself off to sleep.

Run for the Hills
February 28, 2014 - (0) commentsOn the night of 7th January 1928 the Embankment wall collapsed near Lambeth Bridge, right opposite the Tate. Flood water poured across the road destroying homes and forcing local residents in one of London’s most deprived areas to swim for their lives.

Jump on a bus
February 18, 2014 - 2 CommentsOne of my favourite London films is Brannigan, starring John Wayne as a Chicago detective. It is as if Visit London had commissioned Paul Greengrass to direct a travel documentary aimed at American tourists.

The current design has been used since the 2012 Olympics and although I still like the layout I've always felt that the typography was a little difficult to read being displayed in a small [...]

Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]

It’s the stuff of a science fiction writer’s dreams. Excavating in London one finds something buried that should have remained entombed forever. In the late 1950s, BBC Television transmitted the Quatermass trilogy, culminating in [...]
In the summer of 1888 what happened in this building was to change the history of the labour movement [...]

Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]
Standing on scaffolding above the entrance, female employees on arriving would be greeted by the unwelcome sight of London’s first ‘builder’s bum' for Gill wore a monk’s habit with nothing underneath [...]

We challenge our contributor to reply to ten devilishly probing questions about their London and we don’t take “Sorry Gov” for an answer. Everyone sitting in the hot seat will face the same questions [...]

In 1837 a young woman found herself the monarch of her country, she remained Queen during an unprecedented time of burgeoning industry and wealth creation, giving her name to the 64 years she reigned [...]

Weekly nuggets of triviality posted every Sunday each with a short essay relating to the day in question along with 10 other pieces of useless information, read weekly or dip in and out [...]

London is one of the greatest cities in the world. There are so many iconic and historical sites that, as a photographer, it can be hard to know where to get started. Whether you’re [...]
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Down Your Alley: Turnagain Lane
Brilliant blog. Invaluable info. Apt metaphor.
London Books Review: The Great Trees of London
Thanks. My favourite is the Marylebone Elm which I'm pretty sure the h
London Books Review: The Great Trees of London
A most excellent post! I am tempted to go and visit some of these behe
Welsh dairies
Another interesting glimpse of the past from you, I don't know what th