Showing posts with label London History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London History. Show all posts
Sunday, 20 June 2010

We're Going To The Country

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"It's called evacuation. They take you to the station. They put you on the train ..." sing the evacuees and mums in We're...
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Monday, 10 May 2010

This Is Charing Cross

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"This is Charing Cross; It is midnight; There is a great crowd. And no light— A great crowd, all black, that hardly whispers aloud. Su...
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Sunday, 9 May 2010

Rose Ann of Charing Cross

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"There by my lonely bed, a lovely angel stopped and said: 'That's only thunder overhead' And that's how we met. Rose A...
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Friday, 9 April 2010

Dagenham Dave

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"I guess he lost control. And welcomed in the night. It was too much for him. What were his thoughts that night? The River Thames is c...
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Thursday, 1 April 2010

Ratcliffe Highway

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"As I was a-walking down London. From Wapping to Ratcliffe Highway. I chanced to pop into a gin-shop. To spend a long night and a day....
Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Bethnal Green Tube Disaster

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"Let me take you back to the second world war. A time of great valour. A time of folklore. To a place in the east end they call Bethna...
Monday, 22 March 2010

Iron Lady

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"The Iron Lady she no easy ..." When the media draws up its list of anti-Thatcher songs it's made up of the usual suspects. Y...
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Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Look Around

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"Words? What words? How can the likes of me find the words for what we 'ave to go through?" says Vivienne Martin in her role ...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Trade Union

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"Very much in the present is the Bengali group Dishari, singing Trade Union , a rallying cry to fellow Bengali workers to stand togeth...
Monday, 15 March 2010

The Spirit of Cable Street

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"Back in '36 down at Cable Street. State and blackshirts marched but they met their fate. Workers' class hatred drove them off...
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Sunday, 14 March 2010

My Home in Morgan Street

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"My home in Morgan Street. It makes me happy, it's good. I have my own room. Though it reeks of stinking fish. There stands a girl...
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Saturday, 13 March 2010

The Liberty of Norton Folgate

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"Once round Arnold Circus, and up through Petticoat Lane. Past the well of shadows, and once back round again. Arm in arm, with an abs...
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Friday, 5 March 2010

Bow Bells

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"Bow bells are London bells. And no bells ring like Bow bells ring. A ding-dong, the sing song Bow bells ring. Bow bells are happy bell...
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)

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"The towers of London, these crumbling blocks, reality estates that the heroes got. And every hour's marked by the chime of a clock...
Monday, 1 March 2010

Towers of London

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"Towers of London when they had built you. Did you watch over the men who fell? Towers of London when they had built you. Victoria...
Sunday, 28 February 2010

Down Below

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"Hatton Garden is a spot ... that we like to go a lot ... since a bloke in Leather Lane dropped a diamond down a drain ... we've be...
Saturday, 27 February 2010

Dirty Squatters

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"Some dirty squatters moved into my street with their non-sexist haircuts and their dirty feet. Their dogs, cats. Political elite. The...
Friday, 26 February 2010

On The Bombsite

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"On the bomb site you be mum and I'll be dad. He'll be sad. Waiting for the boat that sails down Garden Street ..." sings ...
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Missing You

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"All ye young people now take my advice. Before crossing the ocean you'd better think twice. 'Cause you can't live without ...
Tuesday, 23 February 2010

The Grapes of Wrath

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"The rain won't wash away their tears. The time has passed for crying. Cardboard walls against the cold. Where's the point in t...
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