Tag: 1840’s

In search of Geoffrey Fletcher’s Little Italy

The Italian community in Clerkenwell, which had grown from a handful of emigrants fleeing the revolutions in Italy in the 1840’s into a full “colony” of several thousand…

Victoria Park on a sunny winter’s afternoon

How have I managed to live in London for 32 years and only been to Victoria Park once before?That was in September 2000 to watch a Radiohead concert…

Stockwell Park Crescent

Stockwell was originally a manor house and its surrounding lands which was granted by the crown in the thirteenth century. It remained in private hands until the very beginning…

King’s Cross on a wet Wednesday morning

Just as the redundant docklands were transformed into a modern financial area – and more – in the 1980’s, so too King’s Cross has been changed almost beyond…