Tag Archives: South

Elephant & Castle

In 1961, the year I was born, the Berlin Wall went up, and Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space on his street. Closer to home, in Walworth, south-east London, an 80ft-wide silver cube appeared on the roundabout at … Continue reading

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The Den

“You never want to feel you are alone on a football pitch. Support each other. That’s what a team is all about. We are united. From Michael Calvin’s Family: Life, Death and Football (2010)

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Thames Tunnel (1830 and 1858)

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear… And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames… Before this strange disease of modern life… From Matthew Arnold’s The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

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