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Not Ploughing on
Lower Holloway Sands and whatever happened to Leslie Compton
You were the future once.
Stained glass sleuthing
A Caution to Mothers
The Most Healthy Spot Near London
'Harry, Harry come here'
On not telling on Jack the Ripper
Richard III the cabinet maker, or Hornsey Road on film
Past and Present at Number 51
Before the Andover Estate: scarlet fever, small pox, English cholera and diptheria
Living in the chapel
Dr Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People
The university that wasn't.
... by any other name
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How you notice summer here
A) Invading army of wildflowers: Sylvan Cottage B) Tulips watching over seances North London Spiritualist Church C) Tulips planted by the F...
My overlooked launderette.
Sometimes I act like I'm blind. I walked past the launderette at 450 Hornsey Road dozens of times before I could see how good a melancho...
In memory of Martin Dinnegan
At the corner of Axminster Road and Tollington Way there's a memorial, unplanned and unshowy but all the more affecting for that. One s...
Last chance to see.
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Everest Spice
So I was cycling home with a friend the other day and we had one of those disjointed conversations where you catch five words before the tra...
Puss in Tollington
This is Puss: Puss Puss padded into the Tollington a couple of years ago. The landlady let him stay because thought a mouser might be usef...
The Faces of St. Mark's
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This is not paradise
I've written before about number 382, the Pool and Amusements building that's been rotting for decades. The door was open today (...
we put all the beds in one room, so that if we died we’d all go together
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Poses
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