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Jackie is feeling much better than she was yesterday, but we are still an ailing household, except for Pauline’s ‘last woman standing’ in the form of Becky.
I scanned another dozen ‘Streets of London’ colour slides from July 2004.
For a number of years around the end of the last millennium, I performed a consultancy role at Portugal Prints, the Westminster Association of Mental Health project then situated in Portugal Street, WC2, but now in Arlington Street NW1. The building was then owned by the London School of Economics who eventually wanted it back.
The same must be true of that of the nursery across the road. This facility for student and staff parents has been established in order, ‘by offering flexible hours and half-day care, [to] help parents achieve a better work/life balance. And our central London location, in a quiet street between Covent Garden and Holborn stations and close to the LSE campus, means you can cut down on commuting time’. The quotation is taken from their website advertising the service now situated at Wild Street. Snow White, the Seven Dwarves, and cut-out teddy bears may or may not have moved with the children.
The Nursery windows are also evident on the side of it’s building in Sheffield Street. Much information on St Clement Danes parish is contained in https://www.londonlives.org/static/StClementDane.jsp
Clare Market WC2, where stands this LSE building, once provided many of the church’s parishioners. Naturally this particular Waterstone’s caters for those studying politics and economics.
Walking back to Little Venice from Portugal Prints I could have taken Marylebone Road, passing Ossulston Street NW1 giving another view of the refurbishment of the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel and the British Library.
Howard Brown was all the rage at this time. He was the star of the Halifax Bank advertisements that used the talents of their staff members to create a popular series. The following video is only just over two minutes long, but I defy you not to go on to the extracts in the next one. It is one of the many images of this charismatic gentleman that flies into Old Marylebone Road NW1.
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(In answer to those who are curious about what has happened to Howard, here is an article from the The Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389417/Face-Halifax-Howard-Brown-walks-dropped-ad-campaign.html
Cato Street W1 lies between Brendon Street featured two days ago and
Molyneux Street. The address of the Duke of York, built on this corner in 1889, is actually 45 Harrowby Street.
Bryanston Mews West W1
and Gloucester Place Mews W1 are others in this cluster of Marylebone streets. It is good to see the now old-fashioned sash windows in some of these Victorian terraces. These are designed to be opened at top and bottom so that cooler air can be attracted from the bottom and, when warmed up, exit from the top. So often they are replaced, resulting in ventilation and condensation problems.
The rebuilt Hinde Street Methodist Church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinde_Street_Methodist_Church) dates from the 1880s.
This evening we dined on fish, chips, onion rings, and baked beans. Jackie and Ian shared a bottle of Amstel, while Becky and I drank Barcelino blanco 2015.