London cabbie, writer & tour guide. Author of The Knowledge: Train Your Brain Like a Cabbie (Quercus). Now makes YouTube documentaries about London’s history.
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Very excited today; received an advance copy of my next book: A history of @LondonWaterloo station! The release has been delayed slightly; it was held up due to the recent blockage in the Suez Canal! The book should be available from around the 7th June 😉 waterstones.com/book/waterlo…
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Save The Masons Arms, Kensal Green NW10 from demolition. Re: 26/0807. Comments until 23 Oct. You can object by email or on Brent planning website. Email: planning.comments@brent.gov.uk quote reference 26/0807, linked Listed Building Consent Ref: 26/0808.
CAMRA North London has applied @HistoricEngland to list The Masons Arms Kensal Green NW10. A planning application to demolish pub is registered. The pub appears in census records as early as 1861. Photo credit: CAMRA; Michael Slaughter LRPS.
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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future
The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come.
#YouSavedThePCC
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The (re)opening date for one of London's oldest restaurants has been announced londonist.com/london/food-an…
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40 years on, we remember Suzy 💜
Today, we are sharing a special reflection from Suzy’s sibling Lizzie, remembering her as the person she was: kind, compassionate, strong and full of joy.
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We’ve submitted an objection to plans to demolish the Railway Bell in Lambeth. 📣📣📣
The proposal would see this locally listed building demolished to make way for new apartments, with no clear evidence that it couldn’t continue as a pub, or be adapted for a new use.
Places like this hold stories, memories, and a sense of belonging that can’t easily be replaced for their local communities.
We’re calling on Lambeth Council to refuse this application.
Find out more about the campaign to save the Railway Bell and how you can show your support 👉 railwaybellfriends.org/
Read our full response 👉 casework.jcnas.org.uk/appl/2…
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We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
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'The Post Office Tower from Clipstone Street' (1964) by Terence Tenison Cuneo
(Postal Museum)
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Earworm alert! Music fans: enjoy this piece I did on London locations for music videos:
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London's taxi drivers have a reputation like no other thanks in large part to 'the knowledge', their almost encyclopedic recall of every street and building of importance.
Back in 1974, Nationwide's James Hogg met some of those aspiring to become suitably knowledgeable.
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In 1980, Peter Duncan bravely joined steeplejacks to clean the iconic clock face of Big Ben in London.
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Surrey Docks Farm needs to raise £1,000 a day for 30 days to stay open
The farm turned 50 last year and is urging supporters to rally around so it can continue caring for animals for another half century
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#Rotherhithe @surreydocksfarm
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The oldest meat & fish markets in London, which date back 850 years, face closure from 2028. Smithfield meat market & Billingsgate fish market are to close after the City of London Corporation recently voted to withdraw support. A huge blow to independent fresh food suppliers.
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A man who ran a taxi repair garage in Hackney shot himself dead, after receiving an eviction notice from TfL following yet another rent increase and immediate payment of £36k arrears! Richard Enver was his name.
When politicians fail to understand that businesses (especially small businesses) are run by ordinary working people and a 300% hike in rents will kill off any business; we end up with an economy that tanks. From Downing Street to City Hall, it's the same anti-business lot we have in charge. Disgraceful. 😡
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