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• Postman's Park (13): Death in a Distillery Well

  

  Godfrey Maule Nicholson was the manager of Nicholson's Gin Distillery; not yet 30 at the time of his death, he may have been a member of the owning family. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Sailors and Skittles

  

  How do you keep naval pensioners entertained? At Greenwich's Royal Hospital for Seamen, the Victorian trustees' original answer was a library. There was only on... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (12): David Selves

  

  The Watts Monument tells the story of young David Selves's death briefly and simply:DAVID SELVES AGED 12, OFF WOOLWICH SUPPORTED HIS DROWNING PLAYFELLOW AND SAN... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Blackfriars Station for Antwerp, Venice and Bromley

  

  Blackfriars Railway Station reopened in 2012 after major rebuilding work. Among other changes, the platforms now run the full length of the bridge over the... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (11): John Clinton

  

  According to his memorial tile,JOHN CLINTON AGED 10 WHO WAS DROWNED NEAR LONDON BRIDGE IN TRYING TO SAVE A COMPANION YOUNGER THAN HIMSELF, JULY 16 1894. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Video Tapes and 3D Printers

  

  Hearne House, home to London Underground's technical services section, offered guided tours at the last opening of London Transport Museum's Depot. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (10): Samuel Rabbeth

  

  Samuel Rabbeth's story is not dissimilar to that of William Freer Lucas, highlighting the potential dangers faced by nineteenth-century doctors. Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Stationers' Hall

  

  The Stationers' Company is over 600 years old, but unlike many of the oldest livery companies such as the Drapers, its members are still largely active in the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Let's Swim in the Thames!

  

  However hot the day, jumping into the river in central London is not currently recommended! (Even the moral rural stretches of the Thames can be risky... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (9): William Freer Lucas

  

  According to his obituary in the British Medical Journal, William Freer Lucas was just 23 years old and acting resident medical officer at the Middlesex Hospita... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Beyond Bedlam

  

  As Crossrail progresses, so does its archaeology programme. The dig at Liverpool Street has been featured in the news recently, thanks to its discovery of the... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (8): George Stephen Funnell

  

  George Funnell, a 33-year-old ex-soldier turned police constable, was on his beat in Hackney when he noticed a fire in the Elephant and Castle pub on Wick Road. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (116): Ealing Broadway

  

  Although this old advertising sign is on the wall of a building in Ealing Broadway, it is not painted on brick but on tile. It has outlasted the furniture... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (7): Alfred Smith

  

  Police Constable Alfred Smith was killed during an air raid while evacuating a street in Finsbury and ensuring that women from a factory took cover. The date ma... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (6): the Silvertown Explosion

  

  On 19 January 1917 at 6.52pm, the Brunner Mond munitions factory explosion claimed the lives of 73 people in Silvertown, east London - the youngest only 4 month... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (115): Rodboro Buildings, Guildford

  

  Now a Wetherspoons pub, the Rodboro Buildings in central Guildford wear the marks of their industrial past. The structure was built in 1900 as the Dennis... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (5): Alexander Stewart Brown

  

  Most of the events commemorated in the Watts Memorial involve working-class people living in poorer areas. Their deaths are often a result of dangerous work or... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (4): Tragedy in a Sewer

  

  Walter Digby was employed by East Ham District Council as a sewage worker. One of his daily jobs was to descend the sewer shaft in the pumping-station yard and... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Archaeological Find at Hampton Court Palace

  

  When a palace is 500 years old, and has undergone endless modernisations and remodelling, it's unsurprising that new work can lead to new discoveries. Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (3): Mary Rogers

  

  The twin-screw steamship Stella was operated by the London South Western Railway Company between Southampton, Jersey and Guernsey as an extension of its... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY