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The Omnivorous Omnibus

  • Post published:September 13, 2022
  • Post category:Urban History (Leeds)/Urban History (London)
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Travel by bus, or “omnibus”, could be a hair-raising business in the first half of the Nineteenth Century. Collisions occurred, axles broke, wheels came off, and horses fainted or bolted.…

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An Unholy Street

  • Post published:February 2, 2016
  • Post category:Urban History (London)
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When I lived in London I worked for some time in an office overlooking the Aldwych, off the Strand. I did not know then, as I watched the traffic thunder…

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Sambourne House

  • Post published:June 1, 2015
  • Post category:Urban History (London)
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My cultured friend and I recently visited Sambourne House, a West London terraced home preserved pretty much as it was in the 1890s, complete with its original contents and furnishings.…

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Banner image: detail from The Dancing Platform at Cremorne Gardens (Phoebus Levin, 1864), Museum of London.
This setting is featured in the chapter of Bring Him in Mad entitled ‘A Christmas Pantomime’.