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“On the contrary! I had two flagons of claret and a double helping of curried turtle! I can assure you: it’s no holds barred with us at...

I’d like to share a short story of an incident that happened in 1322. Foster Lane near to St Paul’s Cathedral was at the time known as St...

Old Jewry is a street that runs north to south connecting the Guildhall to Cheapside. In the 1600s an Inn used to stand at the north end...

Hopefully, one telephone number that you won’t dial too often will be 999, unless KFC have run out of chicken, as some idiot did during...

Six Word Saturday #6WS #Death #History #London

In my last post I gave a mention to the church of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside. This is the church that appears in the nursery rhyme,...

Sometimes London can leave me feeling slightly bemused, it is a city of contradictions, double meanings and inconsistency, but I always...

While looking at things underground and specially in the last two posts regarding the job known as Toshing, I came across references to...

six word Saturday Trafalgar Square Police Station? Although it is police property and is sometimes acclaimed as the smallest police...

As you may have read in my last few posts I’ve been looking at all things subterranean, the London Underground, the sewers and lost...

Toshers Let me introduce you to group of men. Lanky Bill, Long Tom, One-eyed George, Short-armed Jack, Titch and Round Bob. A finer bunch...

I had planned to take my first trip on the Elizabeth line on Tuesday 24th May on the day it opened, however other plans got in the way...

Not quite subterranean as in below the earth, but none the less below street level is the story of the tunnels that once lay beneath the...

I’m sure most of you know the children’s rhyme; This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed at home, This little piggy had...

I’ve recently finished reading an excellent book called London Under, written by historian and London history Guru, Peter Ackroyd. It’s a...

One Word Sunday The old Blackfriars railway Bridge #History #London #OWS #Railways

Shambles is a term for an open air slaughterhouse and meat market. Streets of that name were so called from having been the sites on...

“….that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” I believe is a lyric by Joni Mitchell and very succinct when applied to the rather...

A few posts ago I took a look at a quirky piece of art that adorns the wall of a building on Philpot Lane and so as I was there so to...

Question: What is the smallest piece of public art within the City of London? To answer that question let me take you back to the 1860s...