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The Statue of King Alfred The Great that isn’t all it might appear.
Every where you go in London, it is hard to move without bumping into statues and the politics behind who is worthy of a statue, where it should be and how high a status it has in comparison to other … Continue reading
Posted in Heritage, history, Life, London, Photography, Travel
Tagged King Alfred The Great, King Alfred The Great Statue, Roman, Southwark, Statue, Trinity Square
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London’s Biggest Explosion. Silvertown 1917
Tomorrow will see the 105th anniversary of the biggest explosion that London has ever seen and considering all of the industry, terrorism and world wars then that is saying something. However as is often the way with these things, to … Continue reading
Posted in history, London, WW1
Tagged Disasters, East End, Explosion, Lest We Forget, Silvertown explosion 1917, WW1
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Lady Florence Norman – The Scooter riding Suffragette
In London and many other cities, they are the either a much needed liberating ‘last-mile’ mode of transport or the latest bane on urban life. Scooters, particularly those standing e-scooters are loved by riders and seemingly hated by many others … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, London
Tagged EScooters, Lady Florence Norman, Scooters, Suffragetes
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The redemption of King Richard III and a new lead on the ‘Princes in the tower’
For a few centuries, King Richard III has been largely denigrated as perhaps the monarch without any merit whatsoever, even more so than bad King John… and that is saying something. He was ugly, he was deformed, he murdered his … Continue reading
Posted in history, Life, News
Tagged churches, John Evans, King Richard III, Richard III, Tower of London, Tudor
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How a dyslexic schoolgirl helped design the Spitfire!
With its graceful curves, elliptical wings and distinctive engine sound, the Spitfireis a British icon. A status solidified since its heroic efforts in the Battle of Britain in 1940. The Spitfire is the most famous fighter aircraft in British aviation history and has … Continue reading
Were public toilets used to oppress ladies?
It’s the bane of many a city but finding a public toilet can be one of the biggest annoyances in modern life and in London they are relatively few and far between and one visit to some of them might … Continue reading
Wooden Spools of times past outside a beautiful old Spitalfields House
I’ve written countless posts over the years about Spitalfields, Whitechapel and Aldgate and many of them have been on less than savoury subjects but recently when I was out and about walking through the area I decided to revisit one … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, history, Life, London, Photography, Travel, Ye Olde England Tours
Tagged Huguenots, Loom, Silk, Spitalfields, Streets
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Fenstanton Man – A Victim of Roman Crucifixion in Cambridgeshire
Last week a rather interesting bit of news caught my eye relating to an archeological dig from 2017 but for reasons relating to Covid, the findings which have only just been released. As I’ve mentioned previously from time to time, … Continue reading
Posted in history, Religion and Faith
Tagged 101 Most Horrible Tortures In History, Archeology, Crucifixion, Fenstanton Man, Romans, Skeleton
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Snooping around a Charnel House (House of the dead) in Spitalfields, London.
Whilst I was out looking for my beigel a few weeks ago in Spitalfields, I decided to do a bit of a detour to look for an old ruin which if not quite in plain sight then is at least … Continue reading
Posted in history, London, Religion and Faith
Tagged Archeology, Charnel House, Death, ruins, Spitalfields, Spitalfields Market, St Mary Spital
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Theodora Grahn – The heavy drinking, transgendered celebrity of Regency London
Whatever else Regency London has going for it (and there was a lot), breaking the gender stereotypes was not one of them. Much more than race was ever an issue in London, people from the LGBT community such as it … Continue reading
Posted in history, London
Tagged Eccentric, Homophobia, John de Verdion, Regency London, Theodora Grahn, Transgendered
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