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Archives for May 2017

WARTS AND ALL

26th May 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

He is usually portrayed as the bad guy of English history – and in Southern Ireland he is an unmitigated villain and mass-murderer.  Recently, however, I have been taking around a group of Canadians who venerate the memory of Oliver Cromwell.  When we went to Ely Cathedral we were shown a letter written by the Arise […]

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HOOVER BUILDING – FROM FACTORY TO FLATS

17th May 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

Coaches usually take one of three roads into/out of London – the M3, the M4 or the M40.  I was coming back to London along the last recently and talked about football (soccer to our American visitors) as we passed Wembley Stadium and the Battle of Britain at RAF Northolt.  Between the two I gave a mention to […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: Flats in London, Hoover Building, IDM

PICCADILLY BY THE SEA

8th May 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

England’s two greatest artists were contemporaries born a year apart who lived much of their lives in London and were both inspired more by the natural world than the people who inhabited it.  Beyond that they had little in common.  JMW Turner (1775 – 1851), the son of a Covent Garden barber, led a bohemian […]

Filed Under: Artists Tagged With: Brighton, John Constable

BETSY AND BONEY

8th May 2017 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

Thomas Keneally’s latest novel Napoleon’s Last Island was inspired by coming across the story of Betsy Balcombe in his native Australia.  It tells the story of the friendship between Napoleon and the young Betsy, daughter of the local agent for the East India Company on St Helena where Napoleon was exiled after his defeat at Waterloo in […]

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