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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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Square London by Gary Powell
If the financial City of London is her heart and the parks her lungs, then London’s squares must be her soul. The London square is quintessentially English, the square is one of the capital’s most familiar and loved features. Square London endeavours to investigate the history of the London square, from its oldest – Covent Garden and Bloomsbury to its most recent – Canada and Highbury. This is how retired policeman Gary Powell introduces us to his well-researched book, the first on this subject for many years.
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13 Survivors
Thank you for your kind comments. When you next come to London just as
13 Survivors
Having read about the cabbie's huts in a novel, I just had to look for
London Books Review: Up in Smoke
I like seeing plaques of all descriptions. Only problem it's more to s
London Books Review: Up in Smoke
The "official" blue plaques are English Heritage plaques. They have st
London Books Review: Up in Smoke
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