Chapters:
A wreath for Armistice Day
Cupid in the Gallery – more thoughts on the Bedford Music Hall
This Side of Paradise – old books and second hand bookshops
A Trumpet in Sion – Old Montague Street and East End streets long gone
Doing The Lambeth Walk
St Andrew Undershaft – city Church
Portrait of an Infantry Officer – collecting advertising memorabilia
Waterloo Road
The Writing on the Wall – fading adverts on walls
Marylebone Revisited
Commercial Gothic
Bloomsbury: Datur Hora Quieti
A Dealer in Magic and Spells – Davenport’s Magic Shop (now in Charing Cross Arcade)
With a Nice Girl in the Park – parklife
The Simpler Pleasures of London – more parklife
Meditations in Billingsgate – the environs of the old market
Uncommon Market – Brooke’s Market
Off to the Pub – his favourite pubs
Old Clo’ – second hand clothes shops
Down Vauxhall Way
Camberwell Beauty
The Arch in the Sky – comics