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You know what London’s like on Sunday? About as lively as a wet night at Stonehenge.
Richard Gordon (1921-2017), Nuts in May
On 23 November 2006 Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko, died at University College Hospital. His death was attributed to poisoning with radioactive polonium-210. The Russian government were suspected of his murder.
On 23 November 1896 Woolwich Arsenal’s Joe Powell broke his wrist in a league match, he died 6 days later from tetanus complications
It was at F...
For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as your weekend paper supplement.
London is the largest of the bloated modern cities; London is the smokiest; London is the dirtiest; London is, if you will, the most miserable. But London is certainly the most amusing and the most amused.
G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
On 16 November 1724 Jack Sheppard, the diminutive 22-year-old thief and working-class hero, was taken from Newgate to Tyburn to be hanged. His hanging was attended by a crowd of 200,000, and he was buried in the churchyard of St Martin-in-the-Fields that evening. He was only twenty- two.
On 16 November 1898 Britain’s first escalator was installed in Harrods, customers w...
