The 38 to Clapton Pond

This blog features photos snapped with either a Canon 500D or an iPhone6 as I make my way Londoning around leading & researching my tours. I hope you enjoy them. If you'd like to join me on a London tour, you can book me here… Keep In Touch…      

This blog features photos snapped with either a Canon 500D or an iPhone6 as I make my way Londoning around leading & researching my tours. I hope you enjoy them. If you'd like to join me on a London tour, you can book me here… Keep In Touch…      

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A silent winter street in deepest Oligarchsville, Kensington W8.

…on High Street Kensington.

The window of Hornets in Kensington, fine gents' clobber.

Which forgotten outpost of the British Empire could this be? An English Gothic spire looming over the hacienda? Where else but Kensington?

(We do London pictures here: check out our mouthy sister blog Northern Lines for words.)

Yes, it's called The Churchill. Yes, that's the Irish tricolour flying above The Churchill. And yes, The Churchill with the Irish flag serves Thai food. It's in Kensington Church Street.

“It was astonishing how fashionable it was to be unfaithful. He often wondered if it was anything to do with going without a hat. No sooner had the homburgs and and the bowlers disappeared from The City than everyone grew their hair longer, and after that nothing was sacred.” Beryl Bainbridge, Injury Time (1977) “He's bought a hat like Anthony Eden's Because it makes him feel like a Lord But he can't afford a Rolls or a Bentley He has to buy a secondhand Ford He tries to feed his wife and his family And buy them clothes and shoes they can wear But he's bought a hat like Anthony Eden's So he don't care” Ray Davies, She Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina (1969) Pic shot in the finest gentlemen’s outfitter in London: Hornet’s of Kensington