I’m not going too Instagrammy here and showing photos of food. When I worked for London Underground, Eastbourne Place next to Paddington in 1987, I had a penchant for shawarma, having tasted it in Amsterdam in student days. I’d tour the back streets of Edgware Road at lunchtime and found places. Today I had a …
The London Borough of Ealing runs a play streets scheme.
Didn’t mention that there’s yet another interesting but quick way into SW8 from W5 than other ways mentioned. The 65 takes one to Ealing Broadway station from which the future Elizabeth Line will whisk you into Paddington in next to no time. Then it gets complicated to be fair. If you walk rather than bus, …
Jewin Crescent – as The Crescent – existed from the end of the eighteenth century.
Nine Elms and Vauxhall are becoming achingly trendy (after years being achingly run down). I wonder how many young things look up at the roof of their local Starbucks. Why are there elephants up there? Well, dear twentysomethings, there was a previous Vauxhall when the area had its own Elephant and Castle pub which put …
Commuting between South Ealing and Vauxhall offers a veritable cornucopia of different routes – especially if your office mates are flexible about arrival times. The dullest route is the Piccadilly Line and then change at Green Park to the Victoria Line. There are some truly creative ways to get into town, mostly involving a 65 …
I decided to sell my trusty UK banger. Took these photos one day to illustrate the listing – got the car steam washed in a Tesco’s car park. My sister persuaded me to use Facebook Marketplace to sell it. By the following day it was sold (and gone out of my life) for quite a …
I rather like this street sign which I pass on my way to my South Ealing pad most days I’m in London. I assume it dates from the original of the road – 1905 I think.
A lot of the street information research on this website is academic in nature – from university research, the Survey of London, British History Online, borough conservation areas and more. Occasionally, the Hive Mind comes up trumps – these derivations come from discoveries on the Wikipedia made during 2019 which is feeding into the project. …
I’ve had to delete the page that this marvellous print was featured on – you really don’t want to know why 🙁 Just so the image is not lost to the world, I’ve kept it for your delectation.