Monthly Archives: August 2017

What started as a nostalgic day out down memory lane, re-visiting the location where me and the good lady wife Angela first met some 43 years ago – also and unintentionally, ended up as a sort of ‘baby-blog’ in terms of a ‘culture’ day – as we made a return to Leytonstone, London E11, the ...Read more...

For my planned ‘culture’ day out this week I was delighted to be accompanied by 3 old boys that I used to work with in my last role at Barclays……I say ‘old boys’ – they are actually all younger than me 🙂 So, myself, Tony Gowers, Andy Bayes and David Wright set out to discover ...Read more...

  With the breaking news this week that one of London’s most globally recognised landmarks Big Ben, is going to be ‘bong-less’ for an estimated period of 4 years whilst essential restoration work is undertaken – I thought that I would pay a ‘culture’ visit down to Westminster to see what’s going on, and to ...Read more...

For my ‘culture’ day out last week, I had the honour of being accompanied by Peter – a dear old mate of mine, who I worked with at Barclays in Wardour Street, Soho W1 back in the mid 1970’s (I worked there from the age of 17 to 21 during the years 1974 to 78). ...Read more...

I originally had doubts about the content of my little ‘culture’ gig for this week – as I wasn’t too sure what I would actually find when I got to the designated location, as I had never been there before – However, I was pleasantly surprised to have stumbled upon a place that I believe ...Read more...

      My ‘culture’ topic for this week could be viewed as a load of crap (which no doubt, some think all of my postings are) – as the theme relates to the London sewer system that was designed and constructed in the late 1800’s by a remarkable, yet unassuming man by the name of “Joseph ...Read more...