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