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The Isle of Dogs (opens the original)
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It seems like only last week I was blethering on about how Tower Hamlets got its name. Good grief! It was only last week! Doesn’t time fly?Well, one of those original Tower Hamlets was the Hamlet of Stepney so, if you don’t mind, I’ll stray a tad further east1 than last week’s tome and into some of the area that the Hamlet of Stepney covered - a huge marshy waste called the Isle of Dogs.Of course today it's all very well known
Tower Hamlets - London’s least boring borough name (opens the original)
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This post is all about introducing a map from the year 1703 but first there’s a wider story to tell. Bear with…The local government planners of the early 1960s were having a bit of a moment with new names for the reorganisation of London boroughs once the new Greater London Council would take charge in 1965.Some of these naming stories were gathered together by Matt Brown (of the Londonist) and Mike Hall in their forever entertaining The Boroughs of London book. (Amazon link here but ple
Odd London streetnames: Birdcage Walk (opens the original)
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Birdcage Walk runs west from the Parliament Square area - from Great George Street. For me at least, the name always raises a wry smile. How wry is that smile? Only slightly wry to be honest but the appellation had long intrigued me and today’s the day to impart why there’s such an interesting road name in Westminster.King James I was very keen on burning witches. Many misfortunes that befell the monarch - especially random meteorological misfortunes such as storms at sea that affected his progr
Victorian London’s dodgy sergeants (opens the original)
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Some weekends, with a Substack post due, I do think to myself - despite London’s endless history - “Just what am I going to write about today?”. Then Facebook helps me along with a old photo and off I jolly well go. This post was going to be a two parter - first the photo and then an old map of where it was taken. But in this case I need to talk about the photographer and his project, so it’s a game of three halves, as it were.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcd
Answers on a postcard (opens the original)
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Dear Wife,Just a few lines to let you know I am quite well and in the best of health I will write as soon as possibleloving hubby George xxxxx<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1278" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/
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