Steve Plumb

Trying to book a long-overdue blood test at a local Hospital. My existing booking account is no longer valid. 'Call this number'. Recorded message says book via website. To use website, set-up account with password. In a word, 'No'. I've had enough of passwords, accounts etc.

Mine went to my Nephew, and then to my Daughter, whose daughters still have them. The early ones have dust-jackets.

My first was Sir Walter Raleigh at half-a-crown ( 2/6 ), I recall.

Yes, I know their many shortcomings, including the statement that King Charles II '... was a gay king...'. :)

The Green Cabmen's Shelter located on Cheyne Walk SW3 (still there...) was formerly known as 'The Kremlin', due to the clientele being old-school proper Socialists.

It is said that during the 1968 Czech situation, they, to a man, supported the Soviet position ...

My photo :)

When I think 'Cremer Street', I think the Flying Scud public house. I would have liked the redundant pub sign :)

A amazing book, written by an amazing man.

Glorious, here in fashionable North London. If it stays like this, we will have a good-few more minutes of day time, I hope.

@simoninsuffolk.bsky.social Last evening, I discovered your photo on Flickr of the grave of late Richard Motion, out in deepest Essex.

Mr Motion (as he was known in our house), as MD of Ind Coope (London) Ltd was my Father's grand supremo at Allied House in St John Street EC1. He was a kind man.

As I sort-through and collate my piles of archive (bumf and crap...), I find the theatre programme for the superb 1984 RSC production of Peter Pan, which I saw at the Barbican.

Peter Pan is played by Mark Rylance !!!

I remember the performance for the late Stephen Oliver's tremendous music.

Citizen & Merchant Taylor.

I visited here, years ago. Must have been in the late 1980s. It seems such a long time ago. I might have the guidebook safely stashed here.

Nightmare. I must confess that I am utterly confounded by the complexities of train travel, these days.

I actually think that 'The Small Print' is a good name for a band.

Here is a similar image from a hallmarked silver nurses buckle which has popped-up on my SM feed.

Mine's tonight, with live jazz in North Finchley.

BTW that beer looks amazing.

Carpentry complete. My filing and collating also done. All that's left is the tweaking and the sorting of *those* boxes.

I'm interested that you refer to the 'current boundaries of the City of London'. Can you provide a bit more background to this, please ? Tx SteveP.

a man says it 's not likely to happen anytime soon in a living room ALT: a man says it 's not likely to happen anytime soon in a living room

LoL :) I'm imagining TH in a Pub when all the local Rugby lads pile in !!

Oh my ...

A brilliant idea.

The signet is to make an impression on wax. Usually to seal a letter or a document. The engraved image does not have to be a Coat of Arms or a Crest (which is part of the Arms). The image could simply be an initial letter or an artistic representation. Can be worn on any finger or as a desk seal.

Tremendous.

Speaking of coats of arms and their crests, here?

Well, only the wealthy can afford a Grant of Arms, so being armigourus is definitely a sign of establish wealth.

In past times owners of carriages had their arms painted on the door of a Brougham etc. One now rarely sees crests on car doors.

Thanks.

One of my nephews and my niece were Baptised here. I have only the vaguest recollection of being there. Definitely before 1975. Their brother, my Godson was Baptised at Great Cornard. I have a better memory of playing in a concert at a Sudbury church which I think is now an arts centre - maybe.

Understood. The relatively recent tech has blurred the pricing structures. Of course, in the London taxi trade, the metered fare-structure is technically called the 'Tariff' !!

Frankly, the legislation controlling both Taxis and Private Hire vehicles (minicabs) has not kept-up with the technology.

Thanks! The later Cab fare charts were tables using an x/y axis, thereby enabling one to cross-calculate from A to A-Z etc. Many of the points listed were on the 20thC Knowledge test !

BTW Surely @cathamclarke.bsky.social realises that a Hackney Coach is a precursor to a Taxi Cab, and not an Uber?

Thanks Alan.

Oh, thanks. I did wonder. I know that Companies that have (very) small Halls always Dine in style at larger Halls. e.g. Watermen & Lightermen, and the Coopers.

There was a Valente's in Leadenhall Market in the 1970s, I recall - or maybe Fenchurch Street. I never used it, but the lads from Lloyd's where I worked did.