Remembering Princess Alice
Posted in London on 3rd September 2015
It's strange how once you've encountered an event, it's repercussions and associations seem to haunt you. A month or two back I wrote about a walk to Tripcock Ness, touching on the terrible events of 1878 when the Princess Alice sank on her return voyage from Gravesend with the loss...
Welcome to Dismaland?
Posted in Updates on 22nd August 2015
I first visited the Tropicana on a school trip - probably sometime in the late 1980s. I wasn't a swimmer, so joining a small number of sick, limping or otherwise unpopular kids, I skulked around the margins of the site. There was a model railway, a café, and plenty of...
Around The Bend - Back on the South Bank
Posted in London on 1st August 2015
Crossing London can be a trial at the best of times, but today offered some special challenges. I knew in advance that various parts of the Underground network were out of action, but my early luck in tumbling onto a replacement bus service lured me into thinking this might well...