: ' 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 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!