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Cheers,
    While reading about The Monument to the Great Fire I’d read about the tiny mice sculpture not far from The Monument.  Monday afternoon I went to find the “insect hotel” at St. Dunstan that I’d missed the first 2 …

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  I could blame it on bad eyesight but I really have no excuse.  Elizabeth was only 9 years older than her husband… at least I think. 
Ru

Cheers,
   Well maybe cheers isn’t the right way to start on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Assassination.  I believe history would have been different. 
This is email is about All Hallows Undercroft.    I sho…

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   My emails seem to be fewer and further between since we returned to London.  Just too much to research about everything we see.  During the walking tours we hear lots of stories, but there’s no chance to write them down…

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  It’s bright and sunny and has been for several days now!  What a treat.  Yesterday we walked with Sue and Ed to the Angel Pub which is a stroll along the Thames from here.  After that, since it was a clear day, we walked…

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  Actually maybe more of a correction than addendum.  I really glossed over the rebuilding part of the story but our friend Ed Kelly, much more of a history buff than I pointed out the following to me in response to my email.  I …

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   Last Sunday Randal and I took part in our second www.walks.com tour.  It focused on part of the famous London Square Mile that makes up the old city of London.  We began the tour at the monument to the great fire of 1666,…

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  Today I checked out my first library books at the Artizan Street Library Walking the London Blitz by Clive Harris and Walking London’s Docks, Rivers & Canals by Gilly Cameron Cooper.  www.com does a Blitz walk and I do think …