DOWNING STREET (n.) Once a publick place, now a gated community thus designed to keep its inhabitants from meeting voters
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DOWNING STREET (n.) Once a publick place, now a gated community thus designed to keep its inhabitants from meeting voters
Dr. Johnson’s London Dictionary for publick consumption in the twenty-first century avail yourself on Twitter @JohnsonsLondon
We are both old enough to remember when you could just stroll down it and look across at Number Ten.
Cheers, Pete.
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My girlfriend and I once drove up Downing Street in our Morris Minor, did a three-point turn and drove out. The next time I went in an army guy checked the cab inside and out and underneath!
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