David Wilcox

Not me, Adam

06.08.2025 21:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

2/2 Here's the Morris Dancers

10.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wandering Bard in Postman's Park Midsummer Fayre

Birds of Prey in Postman's Park Midsummer Fayre

Morris Dancers in Postman's Park

Minstrel in Postman's park

Culture Mile Business Improvement District made the most of the City's Postman's Park for a Midsummer Fayre - Morris dancers, Minstels, Birds of Prey, Flower Crown Workshop plus tokens for free food and drink. The park is worth a visit any time tinyurl.com/ywch9ztr 1/2 @thecityofldn.bsky.social

10.07.2025 19:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Home - Westway Trust What We Do. We exist to work together with the local community to enable North Kensington to thrive. We manage 23 acres of land underneath the Westway flyover in North Kensington, for the benefit of o...

Adam also lists achievements by the people of North Kensington - including securing land under Westway for the community. The Westway Trust now manages a wide variety of community and commercial uses, sports facilities and green spaces on the 23 acres. www.westway.org @westwaytrust.bsky.social

25.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Where are they now poster

Wall of photos of children playing in the streets of North Kensington in the 1960s

Maxilla Gardens

Adam Ritchie

Where are they now? A photo wall beneath Westway shows local children playing in the streets of North Kensington nearly 60 years ago. Photographer Adam Ritchie is offering a print to anyone pictured, and a photo taken now. More about the exhibition, and Maxilla Gardens location tinyurl.com/2dcgxpdx

25.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Garden at Great St Barts, Smithfield

Early visitors today to the very special hidden garden at Great St Barts, Smithfield (1123) - part of London Open Gardens tinyurl.com/28nn4ofr
Here's the backstory of how local resident Bernadette Skehan and other volunteers reclaimed the derelict garden tinyurl.com/23gh6huv #LondonOpenGardens

07.06.2025 11:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Benjamin Franklin's London Printing Career Benjamin Franklin's London printing career from 1724 to 1726 was a pivotal chapter in his life, marked by his work at Samuel Palmer's and John Watts' printing...

Here's an AI-generated article on Benjamin Franklin's time in London as a printer. tinyurl.com/2b4h87zr I'm finding the
@perplexity_ai
app impressive. Use it to carry out conversational research, convert to a Page, then add further sections and media.

03.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Replica of press used by Benjamin Franklin

St Bartholomew the Great Lady Chapel

In 1725 young Benjamin Franklin worked as a printer in the Lady Chapel of Great St Barts, then commercial premises. 300th celebrations start today with lectures and demonstrations on a replica press. Preview here tinyurl.com/2atr3arz @StBartholomews

03.02.2025 14:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Discovering Clerkenwell map created by Mike Franks in 1977.

Credit also to The Peel Institute for supporting earlier work on heritage maps tinyurl.com/yma9p7cc - and to original inspiration from Mike Franks' 1977 Discovering Clerkenwell map. Today's is the first comprehensive Clerkenwell map for nearly 50 years.

13.12.2024 17:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Clerkenwell — Footways

The digital map is available online at www.footways.london/clerkenwell along with more information about the network and distribution locations for free maps.

13.12.2024 17:43 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Footways Clerkenwell map

Footways Clerkenwell map detailing attraction and history timeline

Charterhouse Square - photo credit Paul Cochrane.

Really excellent new map of Clerkenwell published today encouraging residents, workers and visitors to explore the area’s fascinating streets on foot. Details in EC1 Echo article from Footways London co-founder David Harrison tinyurl.com/224tg5qq

13.12.2024 17:43 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Festive drinks for residents at City Forum

Group discussion at City residents' forum

The City Corporation tried a new format for resident engagement yesterday, with a forum for group discussions, instead of a formal Question Time, followed by festive drinks. I think it was a useful experiment, if we could have a record of the key responses to questions. tinyurl.com/23pjbkka

11.12.2024 11:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sign the Petition Save Smithfield Market

There's now an online petition to Save Smithfield Market urging the City Corporation to "Engage with the community, traders, and heritage organizations to explore viable options that safeguard the market’s operations while respecting its historical significance". tinyurl.com/2dxg86xy

07.12.2024 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Concept for future of Smithfield Grand Avenue

Concept for future use of Smithfield rotunda car park

Media coverage of the City Corporation's decision to close Smithfield Market hasn't offered much detail on possible reuse of the historic buildings - so here's links to concept designs published in 2020. Or will we have another Covent Garden? tinyurl.com/23q6acf4 #smithfieldmarket

07.12.2024 14:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Smithfield Market is going – now what next? – Connections

Thanks Dave for insights on the markets closures. Here for reference are some links to the 2020 concept designs for the Smithfield Market buildings. Will the City hold to that vision ... or something more commercial? connections.commons.london/smithfield-m...

29.11.2024 14:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Connections – by David Wilcox

Thanks Chris for the welcome - these days mainly reporting around City and Clerkenwell, with big changes in prospect for Smithfield connections.commons.london

28.11.2024 09:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0