#photoblog Pub Sign at the National Gallery
From the National Gallery's entrance way mosaic by Boris Anrep.
Posts
#photoblog The (Street) Sign Of Four
Street named for Sherlock Muse, bitter arch-rival of the more famous Sherlock Holmes…
#photoblog Truly Grim Up North London
Yesterday's post featured the sad sight of a dead pub in Fortis Green, North London . Did it die of natural causes? Or something more sinister? Perhaps we'll never know – because the cop shop across the road has gone the same way as the pub… Whodunnit?
#photoblog Caff Week No.7
Kingsley Amis once quipped that the three most depressing words in the English language are "Red or white?" "Red or brown?" on the other hand is a much more cheerful proposition…
#photoblog Caff Week No.6: Same Gag In North and South London
A twofer today - two former public toilets turned into cafés. Toulous in Hampstead Garden Suburb… … and LooLoo's in Putney… Quite flushed with mirth I am. Tee hee.
#photoblog Caff Week No.5 Gone But Not Forgotten
R.I.P Cooke's Pie & Mash shop on The Goldhawk Road. Famed as the caff in Quadrophenia, it is much missed.
#photoblog Caff Week No.3 See You At The Ace
It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint… Legendary bikers' hang-out on the North Circular near Stonebridge.
#photoblog Caff Week No.2 Ken's Cafe West Ham
It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint… Welcome to Ken's Cafe, Green Street, where Bobby Moore and his West Ham mates taked tactics after training.
#photoblog Caff Week No.1
It's Caff Week on The 38 to Clapton Pond! Each day a caff, a greasy spoon, a God's honest cup o' tea and a bacon roll sort of a joint. I'm starting on Caledonian Road… … the caff opposite Pentonville Prison. Now look at the name again.
#photoblog John Milton's Square Plaque
John Milton London born-and-bred, as well as London-born ON Bread Street. His CV includes the job description Prose Polemicist. One seldom sees opening advertised for prose polemicists these days. There's no money it it, I s'pose.
#photoblog N2 Archaeology
The guys at beloved East Finchley store Tony's Continental replaced their sign recently, unearthing this gem from the 70s in the process.
#photoblog How To Use A Phone Box
"Daddy, why's there a big red cupboard in the middle of the street?" An instructional scene on Clerkenwell Green as a dad tells his daughter how we used to live.