: ' london’s toilets'
Toilet Caper
ondon’s lost loos, were until the 1950s famous the world over, these magnificent Victorian edifices, both decorative as well as functional, were built in the first place simply that the government saw them as essential to [...]
Goldilocks Hotels are just right
The ignominy, being thrown out of a hotel for the second time; it happened to me last week quite unexpectedly. The hotel in question, which uses Scotland’s national flower for its trademark, has decided that cabbies [...]
100 years down the drain
Readers of a delicate disposition should log off now for today’s post is about well . . . spending a penny. With a surname like Crapper you would have thought another choice of vocation would have [...]
An In-Convenience Truth
Westminster Council who aspires to become the most anti-social borough in London must be fearful that it is in danger of losing its ranking. For not content with pursuing a regime of traffic enforcement that the [...]
The Human Lavatory
Gentle reader one day you will come, as I have now, to a time in your life when finding a toilet becomes not a distraction but a necessity. London loos, until the 1950s, were famous the [...]
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London Map of Days by Mychael Barratt
Mychael Barratt has taken 366 events that have shaped our City and produced an original and very limited eight-plate etching which was shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2015. This book features the 366 date-specific references to events or people throughout London’s history. His brilliant drawings show events as diverse as 17 December 1849, the first bowler hat was created by Thomas and William Bowlers; 3 December 1976, Pink Floyd’s inflatable pig breaks free from Battersea Power Station; 11 November 1920, Cenotaph on Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is unveiled on Armistice Day.
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London Trivia: Jam and Jerusalem
The memorial is being unveiled at Bunhill Fields today: http://www.bla
London Trivia: Jam and Jerusalem
I saw a Facebook post earlier today - William Blake's exact spot has b
A compact shelter
That would be great Tony. I was promised more information some time ag
A compact shelter
Hi I am one of the other two who along with Matthew built the cab she
Anglia & Angst
Thanks Pete for your good wishes