Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Divine Light at number 465b.

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The Hornsey Road was the Devil's Road , but there are many ways to God here. Anglicans at St Mark's and Emmanuel, Baptists just be...
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Saturday, 7 February 2015

Albemarle Mansions Part Three: Outrages

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By @ronniecruwys of drawingthestreet.co.uk This is the last of the Albermarle Mansions stories and it might be the best. Here goes: ...
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Thursday, 22 January 2015

Leslie Compton at the Hanley Arms

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There is a photograph of Leslie Compton serving a pint to Tom Whittaker, the Arsenal manager, from behind the bar at the Hanley Arms .. Th...
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Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Albemarle Mansions Part One: Six Pairs of Silk Tights

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@RonnieCruwys of www.drawingthestreet.co.uk is drawing the Holloway Road. I hope to drag her eastwards someday soon. In the meantime, her...
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Wednesday, 31 December 2014

On looking up at Bathhurst Mansions and finding Orson Welles

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Bathhurst Mansions on 458 Holloway Road is an uncommonly pretty building. The ground floor's been turned into drab tat, but look up a...
Friday, 5 December 2014

Bridging the gap to 1914

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There were people standing outside the W. Plumb butcher's shop the other week, the first queue it's seen for years, maybe decades....
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Saturday, 29 November 2014

Effeminate and Obstinate

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This story makes sad and strange reading. In 1875 William Stafford, an attorney and solicitor living at 49 Hanley Road, was taken to court o...