“the police called it Fagin’s Nursery” “Dickens knew the area well and it featured in his novels” “It’s changed a lot, mostly for the better” “ship building and ship breaking – the Temeraire and the Mayfloweer” “many would say they wouldn’t visit the area alone” “a mecca for foodies” Isobel introduces us to Bermondsey […]
Read More“there is a legend that one night during a butchers’ convention 26 butchers and their wives slept in this bed”
Read More“here we have William handing the red cap of liberty to Europe…here we have the man who invented the first television aerial [joke, needless to say]”
Read More“it took eight hits of the axe to get his head off, to put it bluntly”
Read More“Always drink upstream from the herd…we had to slip the surly bonds of the coach…fastly superior”
Read More“Simon took an American megastar on a tour and she liked it so much she asked for a second helping – booked Simon for the next day”
Read MoreYou go on a virtual tour of Kensington – the wealthiest borough in London (indeed the wealthiest district in the country) – you best strap yourself in because “Sights & Secrets of Virtual Kensington” takes you through the looking glass: to the Cotswolds and the Egypt of the pharaohs and San Francisco and Docklands and […]
Read More“you’ll see a Victorian mortuary and Brigitte Bardot and a bear being skinned and 1930s workmen on a girder 80 storeys up and a Civet Cat and the prettiest girl in London and World War II bomb damage and Hugh Hefner’s shoes and the four great biblical rivers and Ascot hats…and that’s just for starters”
Read More“What caused this musical coitus interruptus?”
Read More“on our little street of 60 houses, 15 men lost their lives in the Great War”
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