One of the newspaper reports I read about the water tower is that the arrival of the Grand Junction Water Works Company, and the resulting reliable supply of water, was one of the reasons why the area developed rapidly during the first half of the 19th century, and that much of that deve...
Obituaries after his death celebrate his role in the founding of the Mermaid Theatre and the challenges that he overcame in getting the idea of the theatre from a bomb damaged warehouse through to a working theatre in the City of London. They also identify a number of shortcomings, that perha...
For two years, I’ve been investigating the Jack the Ripper case – pouring over the original police and court records, as well as contemporary newspaper reports and other evidence. What I’ve uncovered will amaze you. On May 28, 2024 – I will reveal all in a new book: Jack the ...
One day the vendor says: 'Signor, every day you buy a paper, look at the front page and drop it in the bin. Why?' The man says: 'Every day I am looking for an obituary.' 'But signor, the obituaries always appear on the back page.' The man replies: 'The obituary I am ...
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I found this in newspaper reports on the 28th of September, 1935, where details of the will of a former licensee where given, as: “John Ingram Moar, of ‘The Scots Hoose’, Cambridge Circus, London, licensee of ‘The George and 13 Cantos’, better known as ‘The Scots Hoose’ in So...
Despite being called “New”, Wapping New Stairs are also old, and I found a newspaper reference to them a couple of years before that for Wapping Old Stairs, when, from the 28th December 1728: “On Monday, between one and two in the Morning, a Fire was discovered at the Waterman’s...