West End Blues

Monday, 28 March 2011

The Source Of Thames

›
According to the Ordnance Survey, this is where the Thames first rises 130 straight-line kilometres west of London. Just to the north is the...
Monday, 28 February 2011

Fats Navarro

›
This is one of my dad’s favourite trumpet players and had the kind of bright sad life that jazz historians get all teary eyed about. It’s th...
Sunday, 27 February 2011

100% Brain

›
The incomparable constable Perky accused me of using the other 90% of my brain to do the things I’m not really supposed to talk about on a p...
Friday, 25 February 2011

The Ford Asbo

›
In case you were wondering why I call it this...
Thursday, 24 February 2011

University College Hospital

›
University College Hospital takes up two whole blocks between Tottenham Court Road and Gower Street. Founded in the nineteenth century, its ...
Monday, 21 February 2011

And now for something mellow...

›
Sunday, 20 February 2011

Skeleton Army

›
In 1861 William Booth resigned from the Methodists in Liverpool and headed for London where, in the grand tradition of metropolitan reinvent...
Friday, 18 February 2011

U-ing -illiant innit?

›
I wet myself.
Thursday, 17 February 2011

Orientation IV: Purley

›
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.