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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2019 23:51:48 GMT
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 3, 2019 9:04:30 GMT
Halfway between the north/south circular and the M25.
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 3, 2019 12:58:08 GMT
Good vid, Peter Ackroyd's "London The Biography" is superb at showing how London has spread through the centuries. One of the best books I've ever read although it's a weighty tome at about 900 pages.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 3, 2019 14:00:46 GMT
Good vid, Peter Ackroyd's "London The Biography" is superb at showing how London has spread through the centuries. One of the best books I've ever read although it's a weighty tome at about 900 pages. I like that kind of stuff as well. A few weeks ago, I walked the length of Fleet Street and The Strand and it's fascinating to stop and look at all of the inscriptions on the walls, look down the alleys, read the monuments etc. As you walk in that direction, it's like seeing the layers of rock in an archaeological dig, except this is layers of buildings as they radiate out from the city centre. Well worth spending a couple of hours. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 3, 2019 16:10:05 GMT
Good vid, Peter Ackroyd's "London The Biography" is superb at showing how London has spread through the centuries. One of the best books I've ever read although it's a weighty tome at about 900 pages. I like that kind of stuff as well. A few weeks ago, I walked the length of Fleet Street and The Strand and it's fascinating to stop and look at all of the inscriptions on the walls, look down the alleys, read the monuments etc. As you walk in that direction, it's like seeing the layers of rock in an archaeological dig, except this is layers of buildings as they radiate out from the city centre. Well worth spending a couple of hours. And you can still hear the river Fleet in the basements of many properties up there. My old man worked in Fleet street in the 60's-80's and I'd go up there sometimes to watch the old print presses roll. Deafening noise they were. Ackroyd also wrote a great biography of the River Thames going back thousands of years, cracking books the two of them. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 3, 2019 16:13:17 GMT
My old man worked in Fleet street in the 60's-80's and I'd go up there sometimes to watch the old print presses roll. Deafening noise they were. Doesn't look like it has the space needed for that kind of production line. Must have been huge basements. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 3, 2019 16:31:33 GMT
My old man worked in Fleet street in the 60's-80's and I'd go up there sometimes to watch the old print presses roll. Deafening noise they were. Doesn't look like it has the space needed for that kind of production line. Must have been huge basements. Did you go in the old cheshire cheese? |
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Mar 3, 2019 17:01:46 GMT
Did you go in the old cheshire cheese? Saw it, didn't go in. Is it interesting? |
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 3, 2019 18:15:53 GMT
Did you go in the old cheshire cheese? Saw it, didn't go in. Is it interesting? Great London pub with tons of history, quaffed in by many a famous literally scribe, Conan Doyle and PG Wodehouse were regulars among many others. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2019 23:49:56 GMT
This guy's videos are fast becoming one of my favourites. He even made me interested in airports.
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Post by ayatollah on Mar 6, 2019 22:49:04 GMT
This guy's videos are fast becoming one of my favourites. He even made me interested in airports. I've seen those videos before, they are interesting but he could stop trying to be funny so much. A little corny humor is fine but he over does it. |
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