The Algerian Coffee Stores – caffeinating London since 1887 22/09/2024 donbrown 0 I blush as I write this, but in over 40 years in London, yesterday was the first time I’ve ever bought anything in Old Compton […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Soho Square, Ancient and Modern(ish) 08/08/2024 donbrown 0 There is an ancient hut in the centre of Soho Square, a half-timbered affair with beams that sag and bow. It gives the impression of […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
The Soho grave of Theodore I, King of Corsica 05/03/2020 donbrown 1 St Anne’s churchyard is a small patch of open ground at the Shaftesbury Avenue end of Wardour Street, Soho. Once the hang out of druggies […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Bar Italia, a Soho Institution 27/04/2017 donbrown 0 I’m having a coffee in the last of the Soho coffee bars. An absurd statement on the face of it; there are probably more places […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Rock ‘n’ Roll London 20/07/2016 donbrown 0 One of the shocks of middle age is realising just how old some of the music is that one listens to. Like all right-thinking people, […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Bradley’s Spanish Bar 19/11/2015 donbrown 2 [Update: the good news, if you read the comments below, is that Bradley’s is safe until at least 2018. So even I might get around […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
