4-Way Split

Today mapper extraordinaire Alasdair Rae is featured, who decided to make a map that would “split the population of the UK into four roughly equal parts using a big grid and then designate capital cities that nobody would have a problem with”.

Interestingly London, and the reason for this post, has been split. Not in the traditional cabbies’ Sarf of the River and Yes! I’m going Norf Squire. Alastair Rae’s map splits the capital in a north-west:south-east divide. This must show that West London has a less dense populace.

Alistair Rae @undertheraedar

A trivial reason to stop London Trivia

The other day Twitter sent me a personalised tweet, it said that I’ve been tweeting London Trivia for 14 years. Anyone with a mind to can sign up to the social media site and scroll around to read my missives. For those of you (yes I’m including all you Baby Boomers) who can’t be bothered with all that Twitter malarkey, I put a widget on CabbieBlog’s sidebar which displayed that day’s trivia. Now Elon Musk, after paying a preposterous sum for Twitter is charging a king’s ransom for an API allowing your tweets to appear on a blog. I’m trying to work around this, but in the meantime – thanks Elon.

Stop Press. I have found a way round this by using the Google Calendar, see Daily London Trivia on the sidebar. Who needs Twitter?

Johnson’s London Dictionary: Queensway Station

QUEENSWAY STATION (n.) Underground stagecoach stop that doth erroneously claim to be on Her Majesty’s highway when situated on Bayswater Road.

Dr. Johnson’s London Dictionary for publick consumption in the twenty-first century avail yourself on Twitter @JohnsonsLondon

London in Quotations: Tobias Smollett

The tide of luxury has swept all the inhabitants from the open country – The poorest squire, as well as the richest peer, must have his house in town . . . The plough-boys, cow-herds, and lower hinds . . . swarm up to London, in hopes of getting into service, where they can live luxuriously and wear fine clothes, without being obliged to work; for idleness is natural to man.

Tobias Smollett (1721-1771), The Expedition of Humphry Clinker