Streets Ahead is the column from London Walks' Pen David Tucker...
This month (January 2015) David has penned a few posts letting us see under the bonnet, under the hood of London Walks...
1. Books. Of course. I - David - suffer from an incurable case of bibliomania so I've probably got the biggest "library" of all. The London collection itself will be comfortably into four figures. Not so many, really. Not if you think of the time that's gone into it. 25 books a year for 40 years. That's only a couple of books a month. Peanuts.
It's the completely private - can't so much as be glimpsed from the street - communal courtyard at the centre of a small complex, now converted to flats, of purpose-built early 20 th century artists' studios. We were on the doorstep a couple of weeks ago. A resident pitched up and was keying herself in and, well, I popped the question. And our luck was in. She was hospitality itself. Invited us in for a look. To say nothing of a bit of a photo-op.
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