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Caroline's Miscellany: April 2015
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DEPTFORD - LONDON - BRITTANY - RANDOM BITS OF HISTORY. Unusual London places to visit. Deptford Power Station, 1912. Tuesday, 28 April 2015. So does its archaeology programme. The dig at Liverpool Street has been featured in the news recently, thanks to its discovery of the Bedlam burial ground. 2nd century Roman pot. The excavation has continued down into the mediaeval and Roman levels, and when I visited with London Historians. READ MORE ABOUT graves. Sunday, 26 April 2015. A 33-year-old ex-soldier tur...
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Caroline's Miscellany: December 2014
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DEPTFORD - LONDON - BRITTANY - RANDOM BITS OF HISTORY. Unusual London places to visit. Deptford Power Station, 1912. Wednesday, 31 December 2014. Top ten of 2014. The final hours of 2014 are a good time to look back at my blogging year, so here are the ten most popular posts. First, the five most popular written this year:. In first place, a Victorian urinal! Please adjust your dress. Looks at the rather magnificent cast-iron urinal now in St Fagan's National History Museum, Wales. A year and a half late...
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Caroline's Miscellany: Unusual London places to visit
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DEPTFORD - LONDON - BRITTANY - RANDOM BITS OF HISTORY. Unusual London places to visit. Deptford Power Station, 1912. Unusual London places to visit. Here are some suggestions for unusual, interesting and 'hidden' places to visit in London which I've featured on this site. These should be of interest to Londoners as well as tourists and visitors! Just behind St Paul's Cathedral, a mini-monument and Elisabeth Frink sheep. Pelican feeding time is one of the more unusual attractions of St James's Park. Has a...
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Caroline's Miscellany: February 2015
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DEPTFORD - LONDON - BRITTANY - RANDOM BITS OF HISTORY. Unusual London places to visit. Deptford Power Station, 1912. Wednesday, 25 February 2015. I can never resist the dubious allure of freaky food models. Self-saucing hot dogs. Daffy doughnuts and cannibalistic coffee beans. Have all appeared on this blog - and in my nightmares! Usually, they're found at the seaside, so this fearsome French fry took me by surprise: he was. Attracting customers at a Christmas market in La Defense, Paris. The diverse col...
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Caroline's Miscellany: Stationers' Hall
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DEPTFORD - LONDON - BRITTANY - RANDOM BITS OF HISTORY. Unusual London places to visit. Deptford Power Station, 1912. Thursday, 7 May 2015. The Stationers' Company is over 600 years old, but unlike many of the oldest livery companies such as the Drapers,. The Company is also proud of its connection with the King James Bible: the General Committee of Review met at their hall. The Bible thus appears in the decorations throughout the building, as well as on the Company's arms. It can even be see on a...The h...
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Caroline's Miscellany: January 2015
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DEPTFORD - LONDON - BRITTANY - RANDOM BITS OF HISTORY. Unusual London places to visit. Deptford Power Station, 1912. Thursday, 29 January 2015. Ghost signs (114): Victorian correspondence. Offers the information that it was renamed Broad Street Post Office in 1897, so this sign is truly venerable. The arms at the bottom belong to the town corporation; its motto, 'floreat Ecclesia Anglicana' ('may the Anglican church flourish') fits rather oddly with contemporary Glastonbury. In fact, the arms were no...
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Introduction to the diary of a medical officer during WW1
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Whiz-Bangs Krumps and Coalboxes. 2nd December 1915 Thursday. Whiz-Bangs Krumps and Coalboxes. The story of a Scots doctor in a Welsh Regiment fighting in France. Dr Douglas C.M. Page M.C. His Path through the Great War. One day not too long ago a large heavy parcel arrived from Canada. It was sent to my wife Liz from her uncle, Gordon Page and contained two large volumes of the War Diaries of his father, Douglas my wife’s grandfather. December 1915 with the telegram calling him to report for duty. It is ...
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The Roving Retorter: April 2015
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My high school choir teacher once asked me when I'm finally going to do something with my voice. This is what I'm doing with it. Friday, April 17, 2015. And I Bet They Thought Soundcheck Would Be Their Biggest Pre-Performance Problem. It's my dad's birthday month. My brother got him a luxury SUV. I got him two (general admission) tickets to see his longtime favorite musician perform live, with one of those tickets explicitly earmarked for me. The show was last night. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 3 Hidden(...
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The Roving Retorter: February 2015
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My high school choir teacher once asked me when I'm finally going to do something with my voice. This is what I'm doing with it. Thursday, February 12, 2015. A Special Sentencing Proceeding. I love a good competition. Or even a bad one. Spelling bees, backyard bocce ball matches, staring contests. I’m competitive with other people and competitive with myself, competitive but not cutthroat, competitive because the alternative feels too much like treading water when I’d rather swim. But I can come up with ...
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The Roving Retorter: March 2015
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My high school choir teacher once asked me when I'm finally going to do something with my voice. This is what I'm doing with it. Thursday, March 26, 2015. Get a Room: A Pay-by-the-Half-Hour Story. Once upon a time, immediately after moving into my current apartment, I told a mentor of mine that I was thinking about adopting a four-legged baby, most likely a cat. She was neither encouraging nor supportive. Dogs would love a room like this. A larger, local, partially outdoor dog café, nothing too bougi...
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