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The Beatles were invited down to London for a recording test at Decca Studios sixty years ago today, on New Years Day 1962. (In those days New Years…
It sits on St Andrews Hill at the head of a 21st century development, unbending towards, nor caring about, the preprosterous tail of modernity that sways behind it…
I’ve been re-reading Mark Lewisohn’s majestic biography of the Beatles (or at least the first volume thereof; we fans are still waiting for him to release the second…
When I heard that Fullers had sold their brewing business to Asahi, the Japanese company, earlier this year my heart sank. Youngs sold theirs a few years back…
You can easily miss it. Tucked down a side alley that leads from Hatton Garden, with its gaudy jewelry shops, to the stunted Ely Place, Ye Old Mitre…
On the side of the Bow Bells pub on Bow Road, this black and white mural of Pearly Kings and Queens and market traders and horse drawn wagons…
The sun shone down on Hackney Wick, I turned a corner and there was the Lord Napier pub. Or rather it wasn’t. My heart sank. In its place…
Have you seen the movie The Madness of King George? It’s about George III who, as it says in the title, went a bit doolally. His wife, Queen…
As any fule knows, London has a whole lot of rivers that flow through it into the Thames. Some are better known than others, the old “street of…
This is the kind of nerdy nonsense that London makes me do. I was following the trail of the underground River Westbourne from Hampstead down to the Thames…