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Austerity, Car Parks and Concrete
I looked last week at the fate of London’s squares during wartime, and one might have thought that things couldn’t get much worse. Unfortunately, as in many other areas of post-war life they did. There was no quick recovery and … Continue reading
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The Square at War
This post is another in my series about London squares and will look at what happened to them during the war. They were dug up for allotments and bomb shelters, used as bases for barrage balloons and most famously had … Continue reading
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Gardening Good Taste…according to The Studio
Some people [including me] are lucky enough to have found a second career after retirement by turning their hobbies into work or at least almost full time voluntary activity. One such was Charles Holme who, after a successful career in textiles, … Continue reading
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Mornington Crescent and beyond
Our series of posts about the London Square has now reached the turn of the 20thc and the dawning recognition of their importance. So why Mornington Crescent? I’d guess that for most people all that Mornington Crescent means is … Continue reading
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A picture is worth a thousand words: Drawing Tudor Royal Gardens…
At Christmastide 1497 a great fire broke out in Henry VII’s private chambers in the mainly wooden mediaeval palace at Sheen in Surrey. It burned for 3 hours destroying a large part of the building but it was reported that the … Continue reading
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