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A Licensed Black London Cab Driver I share my London with you . . . The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Cockney laptop

Inow have a Cockney laptop, every time I press the H on the keyboard nothing registers. So you’ll have to excuse the rather bad diction, until I can get out of the ‘ouse to buy a replacement.

Johnson’s London Dictionary: Zoo

ZOO (n.) Curious spectacle wherein London’s population doth subject themselves to being perused by its inhabitants

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London in Quotations: Iain Sinclair

London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city’s bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.

Iain Sinclair (b.1943), London: A City of Disappearances