: ' London theatre'
The Knowledge on stage
It still retains some of the great comic dialogue spoken by the examiner, Mr Burgess [...]
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 [...]
The Peoples’ Palace
Perched high up, towering above all other buildings was Alexandra Palace. Majestic and dilapidated, a shadow of the ’Peoples Palace` it once was named. [...]
Shakespeare in Love
It is not often that a cabbie gets to play a seminal role in a play, but this happens in one of the scenes from Shakespeare in Love written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, with [...]
The Shock of the Old
Nothing quite prepares you for what must be one of the greatest experiences in London: you’ve enjoyed a pre-theatre drink looking across the Thames at Wren’s masterpiece, itself a view not seen outside any other London [...]
A Bard’s close shave
The summer solstice had just passed and on a glorious sunny June day theatre goers keen for an afternoon’s entertainment crossed the River Thames to a theatre part-owned by one of London’s most popular playwrights of [...]
Taking sides
In an age when it’s hard to get a cigarette paper between the ideology of the leaders of our three main political parties, it’s hard to imagine a time when views were so much more polarised [...]
Look Behind You
It’s pantomime time again, when small children get their first experience of live theatre and for those of you who aren’t lucky enough to experience this Christmas treat, a small explanation is necessary. Panto originated about 16th [...]
The Knowledge on stage
The Charing Cross Theatre, for a limited season, has brought this very funny play to a London stage.
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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!