This morning, I picked-up my CD player which now has a new heart (laser reader). In the process, I have stripped-out my HiFi and have done major dusting and vacuuming of the spaghetti which are the wires.
Perversely, am now listening to some vinyl.
On BBC Radio 4's Today Programme this morning, I heard presenter Amol Rajan refer to 'the Lebanon'.
Is that still a thing ?
Heading in to the West End of London today for Lunch with some parish clerks. Covent Garden, almost Soho. I think that my priority will be staying sober and hitting Foyle's.
Good morning Patricia. That Thames Clippers, took Ub*r's thirty pieces of silver, will never sit easily with those licensed London taxi drivers who are also Freemen of the Company of Watermen & Lightermen. There are more than a few.
As the Cabbies would say: 'you couldn't make it up !'.
An extraordinarily English organisation. That a national lighthouse service is effectively run and managed by a guild of retired Admirals etc., is beyond the ken of many foreign onlookers.
Four-wheeled Broughams used as Hackney Carriages were known as 'Growlers' due to the sound which they made when travelling on the cobbled streets.
Most Brougham Cabs had been bought second-hand from well to do people who were upgrading their 'ride'.
There is a Brougham currently for sale on eBay.
Bizarrely, in spite of living in close proximity to WX, I had only driven through it once in my life, and that was a few months ago thanks to GPS !. Growing up in Chingford, we never had any need to visit WX, Broxbourne or Cheshunt - except for dinghy sailing in the gravel pits.
They know.
Una and the Lion - as used on the iconic 1837 gold Five Pounds piece. A numismatic treasure.
In other news. My thirty year old CD player is being given a new heart by a very skilled chap in Hendon who was at school with Peter Mandelson !!
#DegreesOfSeparation
This has just come-up on my SM feed. I like.
There is a shop on Duke Street, St James' in London which is rammed with these sorts of books. I have always presumed that the shop is incredibly expensive. One fine day, I will find out.
Have a lovely time and a very happy BD when it arrives. I look forward to seeing your photos.
Also on Monday, I shall be out for Lunch here locally celebrating my Wife's BD. We shall take the 'bus, for sure :)
This is tremendous, Roger. I am at the Bohemia at least once a month. They host a tremendous live jazz gig in the basement, which is actually an excellent music room. Charging £12 on the door ensures that top-drawer pros are always on the Bill.
And yes, the Beer Street is always my ale of choice :)
When I was young, there seemed to be lots of daughters of Vicars as pupils.
Something is not lily-white pure, here.
Thanks Bill. Having searched Wiki, I do not find any of the events of interest, at all likely reason for creating a CoL badge / brooch. Have a good weekend. SJP.
Talking of which, I bumped into the Founders' Clerk this evening at a concert in Milton Court. I'd had my Tea ... He's very Morningside to my ears.
Roger. Is there a Spurs connection here ?
@billellson.bsky.social Thanks for the re-post, Bill. It's an odd one.
Good morning. This is for sale on the www.
Any ideas of the significance of the date 1720 ? Wiki shows-up one or two interesting events for that year, but I find this badge/brooch intriguing.
Thanks.
Sir Thomas White. Citizen & Merchant Taylor; served as Master.
Company Arms on the right.
Live from Norwich ?
February sunlight on old Penguins
Played in a concert there in the early eighties. I must have the programme here, somewhere. A long, gone memory.
My very first home, before the bucolic vibes of suburban Essex lured my parents away from the veritable dump that it was.
Thanks. Have a good day. I'm just off to catch a 'bus ! Beers for Lunch in W2.
Heading into Bayswater / Paddington for a long lunch with very old muso friends. The Victoria on Strathearn Place W2 is our venue of choice. Highly recommended.
It transpires that I have been fed duff ancestry data. The lovely chap on LinkedIN sent me a comprehensive family tree for his own lineage. He and I both have roots c1800 in Saffron Walden area. We *might* be related, but that is no matter. I was seeking-out lost first cousins.
Did/do all subsequent editions of The Survey of London include Munday's amplifications ?
So this morning, after a lifetime of knowing that my Father had an estranged brother and family, I have 'reached out' via LinkedIn to my deceased cousin's son who amazingly, is working in the same area as where our antecedents lived before coming to London in the 1870s.
Let's see how this pans-out.
