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Mini Italy with a paved street - am I going mad?
Posted by digo about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Hi, I’m looking for a street that I believe is off the Strand – or at the very least, in the WC1 area – which is pedestrianised, probably paved, and has roman-style pillars at at least one end. as far as I can remember it’s very Italian / Venetian in style and there are a couple of cafes o...
premiumWeller Walk? Dury Drive? Which music legend should we name a London street after?
Posted by BraveNewMalden about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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The burghers of Berlin have renamed a street after the dead US musician Franz Zappa: (and I promise not to go on about him again). If London were that sort of place; a place where the achievements of individuals was celebrated by more than a little blue disc stuck on their house, which London musician would you hon...
Are there any street workers left?
Posted by NARDINI about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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When I was a kid there was a guy that came round every week on a bicycle with a rather large grind stone fixed on the front of it to sharpen our knives. Since then I’ve seen a few street workers (or whatever you would call them), mending chairs and such-like, in various parts of the world. Are there any of the...
Doin' the do...
Posted by Juvey about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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About once a day, I do that little side-to-side dance thing which you do when you and someone else are on the same trajectory and trying to avoid one another. Sometimes it happens more than once a day. I mostly like it, and if you do it with a like minded soul, then you both have a bit of a smile and a chuckle. When...
Anyone know the location of this London street corner?
Asked by binky 9 months ago for 1 kudos
Best answer by Tikki
Last active 8 months ago
15 responses
Any London-based people here know the name or exact location of this retro-Victorian street? I need your help! I’m visiting London again soon, and recall seeing a fab-little street corner that looked straight out of a Dickens novel, with all the shops having a distict Victorian look. The corner was some...
