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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 2h

Indeed. Just heading to the (a) Pub for beers and Jazz in North Finchley :)

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 3h

OK. Have a good time in York.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 6h

Will you be in London next week, at all? I have the book and the D**ly T*l*gr*ph pub supplement which I want to pass-on.

Weds 15/10, I am at Innholders Hall for Parish Clerks' All Hallows Court etc.

Have a good time in York. The Musicians are going there next year. I hope to join them.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 12h

This was known and signed as 'Thames House' until not so long ago. The blue plaque near the person in pink marks the site of the second (I think...) Hall of the Parish Clerks' Company. The plaque was installed, with permission of the Vintners' Company, about two years ago.

Peter Stone @londonstone.bsky.social · 13h

Five Kings House, on Upper Thames Street at the approach to Southwark Bridge, is named after the banquet in 1363 hosted by the Mayor of London. In attendance were King Edward III of England and the kings of Scotland, Cyprus, France and Denmark.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. Full-on !

youtu.be/EFG1QLCzICc?...

Jacques Brel "La Chanson de Jacky" | Archive INA

YouTube video by Ina Chansons

youtu.be

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Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social · 3d

Luigi Loir - The Night Café 1910

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 3d

This is a real find. You know that I have a number of cast-iron marks and that I have recorded many of them in London. The City Lands Committee of the CoL on Brooke Street at Handel's House springs to mind. However, every time that I post photo on SM, the mark seems to disappear !! Bastards !

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 4d

Oh blimey! That is seriously obscure in my book. Thanks so much. This one has been bugging me for weeks ! SteveP.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 4d

A question for Westminster experts: This painted, iron mark is on the first floor l/h side of Hatchard’s on Piccadilly. Any ideas of what the coat of arms signifies? Fire insurance mark is an insufficient answer 😀 genuine Q, though.

Thanks.

@westminsterwalks.bsky.social

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 4d

Last evening I was in the West End with sixteen other old-Young Freemen of the City. We each are near the end of our working lives (do people actually retire these days ?). Some are high-achievers; some are not. However, at the table, we are all the same.

I'm a little fragile this morning ...

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 4d

Sir John Soane described the Bank of England building he designed as ‘the pride and boast of my life’, but in 1925 his masterpiece was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes @willwiles.bsky.social

The man who broke the Bank of England – and built it back up again

It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes Will Wiles

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 5d

Sir John Soane described the Bank of England building he designed as ‘the pride and boast of my life’, but in 1925 his masterpiece was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes @willwiles.bsky.social

The man who broke the Bank of England – and built it back up again

It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes Will Wiles

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 5d

This evening, I am meeting with sixteen other not-so-Young Freemen in a French bar/restaurant off of Charing Cross Road.

I expect some challenging behaviour.

Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 5d

I have now been Age-Verified by BlueSky. When the www interface was stating 'estimating age', I was a) excited and b) in trepidation !! :)

That they have used a photo-scan facility, as opposed to using my Credit Card, is preferable.

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 5d

Recently restored, Hogarth’s monumental paintings in the north wing of St Bartholemew’s Hospital in London show a more caring side of the satirical genius, writes Kirsten Tambling

The healing powers of Hogarth

Recently restored, Hogarth’s monumental paintings in the north wing of St Bartholemew’s Hospital in London show a more caring side of the satirical genius, writes Kirsten Tambling

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 5d

St Mark's Victoria Park. The church where both of my older brothers were Baptised.

eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social · 5d

This is one of my favourite paintings by Elwin Hawthorne: "Wick Lane" from 1930. It was once owned by Sir David Scott & it was sold @Sothebys in November 2008. I have included Elwin's painting notes for interest. #ElwinHawthorne #EastLondonGroup

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 6d

'Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap' Hans Holbein the Younger, 1532-35 (Met Museum)

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 6d

My Local in New Barnet. Simpson's of Baldock were taken over by GK in the late 1940s; making the Builders' Arms possibly and allegedly the closest GK pub to London until the 1970/80s massive expansion of GK's reach.

The Pub is actually two houses knocked together.

Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 7d

a sterling effort, no doubt. Have a good Sunday evening.

Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 7d

That's my trick.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 7d

The Victorian 'Middle Class" elementary school of the Worshipful Company of Grocers. Just a few original gate posts left I think.

Like many inner-city grammar schools, the list of alumni reveals some major players. Harold Pinter and Steve Berkhof were there.

Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social · 8d

Aerial view of Hackney Downs school and prefabs on Hackney Downs. Photograph Aero Snaps,1950. Photo damaged and stained.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 8d

My late eldest brother (who would have been eighty yesterday) - school Bethnal Green, two degrees from Cambridge, absolutely hated the loud voice routine as exampled by the UMC. He had a particular hard-stare for such types. It never worked ...

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 8d

Such a beautiful morning, here on the far edges of North London. Very windy, of course.

Have just listened to Brahms' symphony number one. It's been years since I dug into Brahms. = chocolate, the colour brown and cigars; or so they say.

The writing is simply HUGE !

Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks Alan. I had a hunch that it was Broadway at some point. I seem to think that I once saw a street sign saying 'Broadway', but that is probably my dreamy imagination !

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