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The London Suburban Semi-Detached House

My earlier post on Metroland looked ‘in the round’ at the outer suburbs which carpeted London between the two World Wars. The inter-war…

Oct 3, 2023

Oct 3, 2023

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A ROUGH GUIDE TO HELL

Pandemonium

May 29

A ROUGH GUIDE TO HELL

May 29

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An irreverent Guide to London Monuments : The Albert Memorial

In 1840 Queen Victoria, the last Hanoverian monarch in Britain, proposed marriage to her cousin Franz August Karl Albert Emanuel of…

May 21

An irreverent Guide to London Monuments : The Albert Memorial

May 21

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An Irreverent Guide to London Monuments : Trafalgar Square: Monarchs & Miscellanea

Now that the monarchy is a toothless institution most of us like it or tolerate it contentedly enough. But when the King or Queen played a…

May 21

May 21

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The London Metroland Suburbs

The idea of suburbs is not new. Cicero used the word. Chaucer too, and Shakespeare, both quite disparagingly. I doubt that either ever…

Aug 12, 2023

Aug 12, 2023

Michael Beaman

An Irreverent Guide to London Monuments : Trafalgar Square: The Military Men

What does Trafalgar Square mean to you? Maybe it’s the Christmas Tree gifted by Norway every year. Maybe it is the feeling of basking in…

May 21

May 21

Michael Beaman

1000 Words on a London brick

Once, as a schoolboy, I prematurely exited a class through a (ground floor) window. My reward was a requirement to produce a 1000 word…

Oct 3, 2023

Oct 3, 2023

Michael Beaman

Michael Beaman

Londoner with boundless curiosity. Interested in places, real and imagined. Mostly harmless. More of this stuff on my website www.pootler.co.uk

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