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Here’s another cheery post-apocalyptic cityscape, in much the same vein as the New York image from a while back. This time, as you see, it’s London, and if you’re as visually pedantic as yr hmbl bloggr, you will notice that … more…

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Ackroyd: Disappearances can be deceptive

Peter Ackroyd, on the pretext of reviewing Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances, stories of vanishings in London — strikingly, he barely mentions the book, and offers no opinion at all as to its quality — expatiates nevertheless on … more…

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Satellite picture of London at night

Remarkable satellite picture at APOD of London at night, taken in February this year. (via Boing Boing)

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Prehistoric London exhibition

We finally made it to the Museum of London on sunday, mostly to see the new London before London exhibit I posted about weeks ago, although we made it through history up until the Fire of 1666 before hunger and … more…

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Happy Birthday William Blake

I wander thro’ each charter’d street, Near where the charter’d Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man In every Infant’s cry of fear, In every … more…

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Museum of London – the Thames in Prehistory

This is a flint handaxe, reckoned to be 300,000 years old, discovered during the construction of the Regent Palace Hotel in 1912, in Glasshouse Street, Picadilly. The site advertises the opening of a new gallery, London before London, which I … more…

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Baby ‘attacked by fox’

Baby ‘attacked by fox’ in Dartford!

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London blog map

I don’t remember if I blogged the nycbloggers map-guide a couple of weeks ago, possibly I did. Anyway, the redoubtable Cal Henderson has put together an equivalent for London which you can find here. I don’t know how many blogs … more…

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Rapist could be fellow patient

BBC News | ENGLAND | Rapist could be fellow patient – shocking, grim news from a former place of employment.

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London Underground Tube Station Maps

A collection of London Underground Tube Station Maps – actually a lot of these images are more graphical depictions of the layout of various tube stations in three dimensions, and some of them are disturbingly reminiscent of the horrendous dreams … more…

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