Tag: 1962

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…

London juxtapositions…

I’ve been re-reading Mark Lewisohn’s majestic biography of the Beatles (or at least the first volume thereof; we fans are still waiting for him to release the second…

Behind another green door; the rural idyll of Bellevue Place in Stepney

Unfamiliar with this part of London my satnav took me into an alley that led to a development of identikit 1980’s houses. I assumed I must be about…

A grave concern

A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates…. ….we go inside and we gravely read the stones All those people all those lives Where…

London Pubs by Alan Reeve-Jones

I came across this book in a second hand bookshop. Alan Reeve-Jones visits and reviews the best London pubs of his day. Its very much of its time….