Tag: oscar wilde

Lock & Co

(This is another entry in my series on London’s shops.) It is an extraordinary front door. Gnarled and chipped, seemingly much-repaired, but also smartly painted in a business-like…

St Martins Court, Covent Garden. Theatreland.

St Martins Court is shaped like a chair knocked over and lying on its back. It helps fill the gap between Charing Cross Road, once famously home of…

I left the North, I travelled South…and I can’t help the way that I feel.

 Morrissey was the lead singer with The Smiths. They were a tremendously Northern, as in North of England, band their faces set stern against the soft South and suspicious of…