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First lines…Who wrote the following and what was the name of the poem?

William Tjaden Senior Executive at the Treasury, Taxonomist, Gardener, Writer and DIY enthusiast.

At a Tuesday audience Tony Blair raised the subject of what he called ‘the Golden Jubilee’.

Schmidt’s Famous for its reasonably priced ‘ continental ‘ dishes, Schmidt’s, located at 33/43 Charlotte Street, off the north side of Oxford Street in an area dubbed ‘ Fitzrovia’ was essentially a delicatessen with a restaurant at the rear.

Part two Geoffrey Elborn This is based largely on personal memories of the biographer, who died in October 2022, aged 72.

Nowadays we are used to hearing of a permanent crisis in the NHS.

An artist in the new nation of Israel Sochachewsky, Maurice; Old City of Jerusalem; Ben Uri Gallery & Museum The recent conflicts involving Israel have brought to light reflections on the development of the state of Israel in the late forties and early fi…

1) Club Row As recently as the early eighties Club Row in Shoreditch was renowned as a Sunday market where pets, including songbirds and puppies, could be bought for next to nothing with no questions asked.

Journalist Peter Browne was obviously drawn to the more singular attractions of post-war London.

‘ The pub and the church are twin symbols at the heart of every English community, the signs of an integrated social life, and they have been so throughout our recorded history from Chaucer’s time down to the new Elizabethan age’.

1) The Kingsway Tram tunnel The Kingsway, an unlovely London thoroughfare which was built in 1906 by London County Council to link High Holborn to another new thoroughfare dubbed Aldwych at the end of the Strand, smashed its way through one of the capital…

We know who the richest man in the word is today.

Poule mouillee Milksop Profonde Pocket.

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Inspired by The New London Spy (1966) The Grenadier, Wilton Row. ‘ This serves very decent food, far better than the average pub meal ( though naturally priced accordingly) .It does have a great deal of physical charm, in a particularly nice setting.

Escoffier.

Extracts from The New London Spy (1966) ‘Pubs are what other countries don’t have.

The New London Spy (1966) ‘ Junk is other people’s left-overs, which they never usually wanted in the first place anyway.

With these popular paperback ‘lowdown’ guides to London the trick is to date them without looking at the title page or other publishing information.

14 Fleet Street the site of the Rainbow Coffee House The Rainbow and Sweeney Todd’s At 14, Fleet Street, stood ‘The Rainbow’, which opened its doors in 1657 as one of the earliest coffee houses in Britain.

Taken from Best Upper Crust Jokes by Edward Phillips (1974) Don’t see much of Chauncy de Pugh these days, old boy .’ ‘ No—he’s become a tremendous snob since he succeeded to the title.’

In ‘ Letters to my Great-Grandson ‘ ( in The Book of Fleet Street, ed.

3) The Red Lion, Poppin’s Court.