: ' 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 [...]
The Knowledge Special Offer
Special offer to cabbies and KoL boys and girls for the forthcoming play at The Charing Cross Theatre.
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Daily London Trivia
In 24 July 1936 the Speaking Clock spoke for the first time from Dollis Hill #LDNTrivia
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What I’m Reading
The Churchill Factor by Boris Johnson
After Boris has decimated the London cab trade it pains me to have to acknowledge that this is the most readable biography on Churchill I’ve read. Broken down into facets of Churchill’s life rather than chronologically it makes for a fascinating read.
London Links
Green cab shelters
What a wonderful memory. I'm hoping to try to write a definitive accou
Green cab shelters
My godmother Mrs Beatty ran the Warwick Avenue shelter and on occasion
'Mrs' Everest
JKR writes superb fiction, while I write (hopefully) facts, in a medio
'Mrs' Everest
Super article packed with suspense. Another JK Rowling in the making.
Ancient Inns of the Borough High Street–continued
We have Adrian Prockter to thank for these two posts about Borough Hig