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The London Journal of Flora Tristan | Views and Voices
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. Cornish Pasties – a family tradition. The London Journal of Flora Tristan. March 10, 2014. The House of Commons. 1831. Flora wrote a merged account of her four London visits which. Was published in France in 1842 under the title ‘ Promenades dans Londres. House of Commons George Hayter, showing a more ordered version than Flora’s description. Allowance has to be made for Flora’s tendency to exaggerate and to paint a colourful, but not always accurate, pict...
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. Newer posts →. Religion and debauchery in Tunbridge Wells. October 27, 2011. Celebrated for its waters Tunbridge Wells was remarkable for little else than the ignorance and profaneness of its inhabitants’. (The life and Times of Selina Countess of Huntingdon, 1839). Early on an autumn evening in 1768 a crowd gathered outside a large house on Mount Ephrai. The Pantiles in 1748. Memorial commemorating the chapel's foundation. The site of Countess Selina̵...
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From the Cruet Stand to the Cheese Grater, London nicknames | Views and Voices
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. Two weddings and a christening. Marylebone Church in 1846. The Royal Exchange →. From the Cruet Stand to the Cheese Grater, London nicknames. April 13, 2012. In the nineteenth century. Magazine during the 1851 Great Exhibition as a nickname for the huge glass hall in Hyde Park. Described it as being like a ‘monster threefold boiler’ and it soon became known as ‘the Brompton boilers.’. Big Ben (Illustrated London News). This entry was posted in London.
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Cornish Pasties – a family tradition | Views and Voices
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. Theft at the Pantheon Bazaar. The London Journal of Flora Tristan →. Cornish Pasties – a family tradition. July 21, 2013. My grandparents lived in Falmouth, so there were plenty of beaches nearby to choose from. Our family’s favourite was (and still is) Kynance Cove out on the Lizard Peninsula, where a steep path leads down to a sandy beach enclosed between outcrops of green-black serpentine rocks. The Cornish cooks convert leeks, fish, fowl, everything in...
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The Royal Exchange | Views and Voices
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. From the Cruet Stand to the Cheese Grater, London nicknames. The Wreck of the Anson →. January 2, 2013. Prince Albert in 1842 (by Franz Winterhalter). The Royal Exchange in 2012. He Royal Exchange in c1894. The ceremony took place inside a large circular tent, lined with red and white striped drapery and lit by a circle of gas lamps. Local residents complained. A recent edition of Eliza’s autobiography. This entry was posted in 1842. Well done for writing ...
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The Wreck of the Anson | Views and Voices
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. Theft at the Pantheon Bazaar →. The Wreck of the Anson. February 20, 2013. Noon on December 29th 1807. A stormy day on a Cornish beach. 35 year-old cabinet maker Henry Trengrouse watched in horror, the wind buffeting his face and salt spray soaking his clothes and skin. He could see still more passengers and crew on board, trapped and unable to escape. And, despite the howling wind, he could hear their screams. Forward twelve years, to May 28th 1819, and w...
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Theft at the Pantheon Bazaar | Views and Voices
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London, Kent and Cornwall in words and pictures. The Wreck of the Anson. Cornish Pasties – a family tradition →. Theft at the Pantheon Bazaar. July 12, 2013. The bazaar had been constructed in 1834, within the walls of a former theatre. It consisted principally of a large airy room, lit by curved roof windows and filled with long rows of. A cell in Newgate Prison. Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey. (New Court was similar, although on a smaller scale). Eliza appeared in court to give evidence in support ...
