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A London Inheritance
Beetleypete
Bug Woman in London
Diamond Geezer
Exploring London
Flickering Lamps
Making Book
Look Up London
Pubcat London Taxi Tails
Robs London

SilverTiger
Spitalfields Life
The Great Wen

The Secret City
The Street Names

My memoir is now available on Amazon

Tomorrow's Anniversary in London

  • ‪9 February 1792: German Swiss entrepreneur Johann Jakob Schweppe arrived in London to set up his first Seltzer water factory at 141 Drury Lane. Despite an unpromising start to the business with his Swiss partners pulling out of the venture, Johann Schweppe persevered, his Soda Water became the colloquial term for sparkling water within a decade cementing his business name in the popular lexicon and creating the worldwide brand‬ 9 February, 2023

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Bloggery from a retired London Licensed Cabbie

 

Why spend money sitting in a cab listening to whingeing from your London cab driver, or having him fill your head with useless London trivia when you can sit in comfort and read it here for free?

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In my opinion . . .

  1. The Hours of the Day and Night are taken up in the Cities of London and Westminster by Peoples as different from each other as those who are born in different parts centuries.

    Richard Steele (1672-1729)

    London in Quotations: Richard Steele

    6 February, 2023 Gibson Square 2 Comments
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  1. A London Inheritance
    Beetleypete
    Bug Woman in London
    Diamond Geezer
    Exploring London
    Flickering Lamps
    Making Book
    Look Up London
    Pubcat London Taxi Tails
    Robs London

    SilverTiger
    Spitalfields Life
    The Great Wen

    The Secret City
    The Street Names

    3 September, 2020 Gibson Square Leave a comment
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Full Dark House

By Christopher Fowler

The first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit.

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