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A Dickens of a discovery

Walking along Cleveland Street in the direction of the Euston Road there is a small Georgian house at no.22, now an old-fashioned shop selling buttons, with a black…

A Sex Pistol sang in Nightingale Lane

Nightingale Lane runs from Clapham Common to Wandsworth Common and was originally a rural track that local yokels used to drive their cattle from one common land to…

The law of unintended circumstances…

….and an argument against stupid taxes. In 1696 some clever clog decided to tax windows. You had to pay an extra tax for each window in your home….

A writer’s view of the street

As I wandered round Cloudesley Square, one of Islington’s very fine Georgian squares, trying to mentally undress the dominating church at its centre of the scaffolding overcoat that…

Cumberland Terrace in blue

Such is the cheek by jowl nature of London that you can leave a rough and ready post-war council estate built on a bomb damaged site  – Regents…