Monday, 31 October 2022
Meet the Striding Man
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History records that the Striding Man was first sketched in 1908 by the illustrator and cartoonist, Tom Browne . Since then, he has marched ...
Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Steel Globe Tower, Coney Island
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Property development is an occupation that attracts more than its fair share of swindlers and confidence tricksters. A favoured strategy is...
Friday, 7 October 2022
Kugelhaus Dresden
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On the north side of Dresden Hauptbahnhof on Wiener Platz there’s an unexceptional low rise modern office block in which is embedded a tribu...
Monday, 3 October 2022
Postcard of the Day No. 110, Regent Circus
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There’s no Regent Circus on today’s map of London but, according to Hermione Hobhouse in her History of Regent Street the intersection with...
Sunday, 18 September 2022
Our Latest Merrie Monarch
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It will take some getting used to but within just 48 hours we had a new Prime Minister and a new Sovereign to enhance our lives. For the fo...
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Heath Robinson’s Merrie Monarchs
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Two volumes of Monarchs of Merrie England were published in 1907. Each volume had 10 colour plates by W Heath Robinson (WHR) and humorous v...
Friday, 19 August 2022
Some Huntley & Palmer Publicity
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Following on from our previous post is a display of magazine advertising of Huntley & Palmer (H&P) products. H&P never establish...
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