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Mapping Sixties London
This exquisite map of the 1960s West End is one of the most interesting ways I’ve seen of making tangible that fascinating era that remains tantalisingly out of reach and hard to comprehend. Produced...
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How to take your appendix out on the Piccadilly Line
Advice (click to enlarge) from The Brand New Monty Python Papperbok, 1974.
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150 years of the London Underground
To mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, here is a piece I wrote for Time Out in 2007. It was, on the face of it, a stupid idea. Running trains, and steam trains at that, in tunnels...
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Phyllis Pearsall and searching for truth in the A-Z
I’ve written before about the urban legend surrounding Phyllis Pearsall, and her oft-repeated claims that she created the A-Z by walking every inch of London streets even though she could have just...
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Secret London: deliberate mistakes in the A-Z
You can’t trust a map. Not even the A-Z. A BBC TV programme several years ago first revealed to many people the news that the A-Z contains deliberate mistakes. These ‘trap streets‘ are inserted as a...
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