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Fancy a painting of Deptford?
According to Artdaily, Sotheby's will be auctioning an eighteenth-century picture thought to feature Deptford Dockyard. The work by Samuel Scott is expected to fetch around half a million pounds; itsdepiction of the great sailing vessels of the age, ...
More Paris street art
A few interesting pieces of Paris street art, the first from the Marais and the others from Montmartre.Jérôme Mesnager describes his trademark white men as 'a symbol of light, strength and peace'. They have been appearing since 1983, all over the w...
EastLondonLines
Journalism students from Goldsmiths College have set up a new local website, EastLondonLines, which aims to provide news coverage for the communities along the East London Line ready for its reopening next year.They've already appeared in the Guardia...
Eiffel Tower bunker
The Eiffel Tower has the river Seine in front of it and a large, landscaped area, the Champ de Mars, behind. Before being turned into gardens, the Champ de Mars was first the parade ground for the Ecole Militaire and then the site of the 1889 Univers...
The biter bit
A great story of one nineteenth-century gentleman getting his well-deserved comeuppance - twice!On Friday, Mrs. Mary Ash, the wife of a respectable tradesman at Deptford, was charged with having committed an assault on Major John Purdy, an officer in...
Shillibeer\'s omnibus drama in Deptford
The debates over London's buses roll on, and we are still waiting to find out what the 'new Routemaster' will be like. Of course, one of the arguments against the old Routemaster was the potential danger of an open rear platform. We might have our ow...


love the format for your blog intriguing pics and pieces of historical info.
Posted: April 20th, 2009 | More Reviews From benzer | Report This Comment