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This is the first of a series of blog entries about shops. The never-ending shift to buying things online combined with the restrictions imposed by the government in…
I had a minor operation to fix a problem with my knee earlier this week. The injury has meant that I haven’t done much walking of late and…
It’s not going to be a long post. I’m besotted with Charles Dickens at the moment, listening to his novels as audiobooks and seeking out places he describes…
l’m wandering around London with Charles Dickens rattling around inside my head at the moment. I listened to the audiobook of David Copperfield, which I started out of…
Barnard’s Inn was one of the Inns of Chancery where solicitors traditionally trained and practised law from chambers within the Inn building until the nineteenth century. As the…
Ancient Inn’s abound in Holborn. I don’t mean just the drinking, stabling-your-horse-overnight type of Inns, but also the legal buildings that are part of the deep and old…
I had an hour to spare before catching a train from King’s Cross and headed north past St Pancras Station in the direction of the Regent’s Canal I…
I love it when fictional London collides with a factual version of the city. After visiting Staples Inn a few month’s ago,I recently found this passage in The…
You can be as naughty as you want but don’t get caught. A sighting of Princess Di on Monmouth Street
I came into Monmouth Street looking for a scene sketched by Geoffrey Fletcher in his book The London Dickens Knew. That’s how sad I am. I collect old…
If one of London’s dockers – say Danny Baker’s Dad, Spud, from the excellent Cradle To The Grave TV series – came back from even fifty years ago…