Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a Grade 11 listed building at 145 Fleet Street, City of London. There has been a public house at this location...
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As I was born a Londoner,, my thoughts have been turning in the pandemic, to how Londoners coped with Spanish Flu in 1918. My grandfather returned...
Emily Jane Bronte did not write her poems for publication. They contained her private thoughts and emotions intended for herself alone. Charlotte discovered the poems and...
The Bells of St Clement Danes in the Strand, play the nursery rhyme, which lists the London church bells. Danish residents who lived there in the...
The Zoom meeting of the Handforth Parish Council went viral after seventeen-year-old Shaan Ali retweeted a you tube clip on his twitter account. He is in...
Captain Tom was already in his ninety-ninth year, on April 6th 2020 when he started walking the lengths of his garden to raise money for the...
Probably if you live in the British Isles, you will have had your first sight of snowdrops this year, either growing in a garden by design,...
A hundred and seventy years ago in the North Yorkshire market town of Masham , two small businesses operated next door to each other in the...
Michael Rosen has written an article in the Guardian 23 January 2021, asking the Minister for Education, Gavin Williamson if he could tell parents what a...
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a Grade 11 listed building at 145 Fleet Street, City of London. There has been...
Many people when they think of Jane Austen, they think of Bath, in fact, the well-known British writer lived for...
The castle on a hill called Tor has existed since before the Norman invasion, even though it was made of...
As you probably know, London’s Piccadilly Line is the dark blue underground line. It is just over 100 years old,...