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Home and abroad: Royal Arcade, Norwich
Philip Wilkinson is the author of over 40 books, including The English Buildings Book, and most recently The High Street, written in conjunction with the BBC TV series. Happily for us, he’s also the...
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The Slang Guide to London: Tyburn
Death-sweats, Paddington spectacles and gallows humour this week, as Jonathon Green continues his slang tour of London with a trip to Tyburn… It is an old place. A crossroads where as we know wicked...
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The Slang Guide to London: Limehouse
From Fu Manchu to Fred Astaire this week, as Jonathon Green continues his slang tour of London by venturing into the East End’s Chinatown and the heady scents of opium and white slavery … It’s not so...
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Norbiton: Linear City
In this week’s bulletin from Norbiton, Toby Ferris considers the remarkable Linear City of town planning visionary Arturo Soria y Mata… Town planning is predominantly a literary form. The boiling...
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Ruskin and the River
In a recent Dabbler post, Nige sang the praises of the River Wandle. But as Jonathan Law explains, the river also had a profound significance for a great Victorian… On a sultry morning in May, Nige...
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Location, location
Kensington Gore: Luke Honey takes us on a trip around some London landmarks captured on film and uncovers some strange and groovy goings on down the King’s Road… I first noticed him one Saturday...
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Mr Slang’s Diary
In which Mr Slang takes stroll through Great Wen, calls for Armageddon… Some Lord’s day. I know not which and care less for I have no time for man-made jacks-in-boxes and believe but in a single rule:...
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Book Review: City by P.D. Smith
For the first time in history, more than half the population – 3.3 billion people – is now living in cities. Elberry reviews ‘the ultimate guidebook to our urban centres’… From the sky, England still...
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The Old Ways- Winners!
The lucky winners of the latest Dabbler Book Club selection… Free books. What’s not to like? Especially when the book in question is Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways, a book that has deservedly been...
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The Cabazon Dinosaurs
Time was when my idea of a decent American film seemed to involve someone like Nicholas Cage (back when he was human) gunning a beat-up Dodge Charger into the Californian desert before having a...
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Britain’s Shanty Towns
Worm guides us through the jerry-built plotlands of Great Britain… Plotlands began in the 1870′s as a way for speculators to offload marginal farmland as Britain’s agrarian populace uprooted en masse...
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Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport
I very much like the fact that the alien airport featured in today’s unusual wikipedia article was named by the local council. Opened in 1963, Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport is located...
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Secret London: The Underground Streets of London
Time for the second installment on the curiosities of our capital city from Peter Watts – journalist,self-confessed London geek, and author of Know London. Streets beneath streets, layer upon layer,...
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Reality Checkpoint
Are there any Dabblers who have personal acquaintance with the reality checkpoint unearthed in today’s unusual wikipedia article? Reality Checkpoint is the name given to a large lamp-post in the...
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Baarle-Hertog
Must be fun living in the bit of Holland that’s within the bit of Belgium that’s within Holland, especially if you were in a police car chase. Despite that, here’s another Wikipedia discovery that’s...
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Win a free copy of Meadowland by John Lewis-Stemple
Want to get your hands on one of the best nature books of the year? Read on to find out how you can win one of 3 copies of Meadowland by John Lewis-Stemple… What really goes on in the long grass?...
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The Suburban Sublime – Southgate Tube Station
Nige admires the work of Charles Holden, the architect behind Southgate Tube Station, one of London’s finest Art Deco Underground stations… That is not a newly landed art deco UFO above – it is...
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