The shop is in the corner of a long block of flats that runs from Three Colts Lane up along Corfield Street. The following photo shows the shop, and in the first window down Corfield Street is one of the red and white striped signs that have long been the symbol for a barbers. Three...
Shell Mex House Most of us would agree that the Elizabeth Tower (known more popularly by its nickname ‘Big Ben’ – actually the name of the bell), is one of the world’s most famous clocks. When it comes to iconic symbols of London, the Palace of Westminster’s time-keeper is up ...
would have been larger had my great patron been convinced of an error, which I have heard him utter more than once, that he could not indeed say that the acting as a principal justice of peace in Westminster was on all accounts very desirable, but that all the world knew it was a ver...
Weft & Coves Wharf and White Friars Dock around the site of current Victoria House. Although today, Tudor Street is just over 300 metres long, on Horwood’s Map the name only leant itself to a short stretch of the eastern end. Meanwhile...
There was a strong push made to get one laid down in Broadway, and corporation jobbery had nearly succeeded. For my own part, did I live in Broadway, if they would lay down a single line of rail, with shunters at intervals, to enable the cars to pass one another, and fix regular ...
However, there are few tourists around. On that day, American and Filipino flags are placed beside each of these marble headstones. Today, this tranquil, park-like space, in the midst of bustlingTaguig City, is a major tourist destination. The environment here, however, is beautiful and the...
For having lived in Westminster—how many years now? over twenty,—one feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense (but that might be her heart, affected, they said, by influenza)...
In the mid-1870s, the Barbers' claim had been worked out. They reached blue ground—a layer of non-oxidised kimber- lite—named after the weathered kimberlite which was coloured yellow by 8 BARBER'S WORLD OF BIRDS AS A SPACE OF GENDER EQUALITY 297 limonite, and which ...
Politics and International Relations, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, Wells Street, London, UK Nitasha Kaul Inequality and Human Development Program, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru, India Nisar Kannangara Corresponding aut...