Tag: 1960’s

It was (….gulp) 60 years ago today that the Beatles came to London to play

The Beatles were invited down to London for a recording test at Decca Studios sixty years ago today, on New Years Day 1962. (In those days New Years…

No lion, no witch but here’s Wardrobe Place

Wardrobe Place just off Carter Lane, a lovely courtyard dating back to the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire.

I Camisa & Son, Old Compton Street

I work around the corner from Old Compton Street and am partial to a Friday portion of fish and chips from the fabulous Poppies restaurant on that street….

Ye Old Mitre on a Sunday

You can easily miss it. Tucked down a side alley that leads from Hatton Garden, with its gaudy jewelry shops, to the stunted Ely Place, Ye Old Mitre…

The skinny alley

It’s 200 yards long and only 15 inches wide at its narrowest point. Brydges Place connects St Martin’s Lane to Chandos Place and Bedfordbury in Covent Garden. On…