Welcome, browsing and curious reader. Your search efforts are to be rewarded with little snippets of information about London’s street names and the stories behind them.
We’ll be adding to this over time so keep visiting to see what other scary, scatological, or downright weird facts we can offer you.
The main (so far) categories are:
Bawdy
Boozy
Eccentric
Scatological
and there may be an additional category of just plain ‘weird’.
A Private History of a Public City
Literature, books , sport and whatever intrigues me
The Origins of Olde English Pub Names
One writer's experiences, and battles with words
Smoothing the wrinkles in this wrinkly's writing
Little slices of London's history
London history from TV historian Tony McMahon
Taxi Talk Without Tipping
Exploring the world of late Georgian and Regency London
e-mail: lostcityoflondon@sky.com
A Library of Literary Interestingness
History, trivia, stories & more from Robert Lordan, author of 'The Knowledge, Train Your Brain Like a Cabbie'.
A blog about London and its history...
Writing about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era
The musings of a Londoner, now living in Norfolk
Just another WordPress.com site
A London culture and history blog
Medical historian, Writer and Television Presenter.
Random musings about London's history
Little slices of London's history
In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London.
Little slices of London's history
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