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Gerrard St, Chinatown
While you or I would visit for dumplings and dim sum, Chinatown and the rest of Soho were once hunting grounds. In the Victorian era, Soho was a notorious den of iniquity and each street has its own...
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Why Do You Live There?
London in the rain Credit: Flickr/VuBui I was walking to my flat in Old Street a few years ago. It was February, close to midnight and there was still snow on the ground. I was on the phone to a...
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Islington in the Spring
The Fat Faced Cat in Camden Passage I moved last weekend to Islington after a brief (but happy) stint in Highbury. I’ve long been a fan of the area for its lively cafes, amazing boutiques and charming...
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London’s Multilingual Streets: or the reason my bike was always covered in...
London’s mutliingual streets. Image credit: Dr Suzanne Hall Last week I attended an eye-opening lecture at the London School of Economics as part of the London Festival of Architecture. Multilingual...
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London’s best outdoor pools
London is full of outdoor pools. Here are my picks while it’s hot enough to actually use them: Hampstead Ponds Hampstead mixed ponds Hampstead is home to the the mixed, women’s and men’s ponds. It’s...
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