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Archives for April 2018

NEW PLACE(S) IN STRATFORD

26th April 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

            William Shakespeare would be 454 years old today (23rd April 2018) and it would be 404 years since his death, which occurred on the same date as he was born fifty two years later – or is assumed to have as we only have a date for his baptism rather […]

Filed Under: Writers Tagged With: New Place, Shakespeare School, Stratford

NATIONAL TREASURES AT SAINT PANCRAS

26th April 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

          Sometimes guides meet groups who are coming into London on the Eurostar train.  It used to pass near to my house in Brixton and the one occasion I was on it, coming from Paris with my family, I was tempted to ask them to do an unscheduled stop at Brixton station […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: John Betjeman, Saint Pancras, Tracey emin

LONDON’S MOST FAMOUS EMPTY SPACE

9th April 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                          Modern art is maybe not the main subject on which tourist guides need to be well-versed. I explain how modern Britain works – taxes, politics, education – but we do historical stuff mostly – stories from the past about writers like Shakespeare […]

Filed Under: London Tagged With: Fourth Plinth, Ivan Rakowitz, Trafagar Square

ALL GREEK TO ME

9th April 2018 By Eddie Lerner Leave a Comment

                          We were in Greece for a week as the season starts with an early Easter.  Yesterday was Easter Sunday, also the 1st April, traditionally the first day of the new tourist season – also April Fool’s Day, which may or not be significant.  I have […]

Filed Under: Uncategorised Tagged With: ATHENS, GREECE, OLYMPICS

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