The following articles have been published in various national and local magazines – the details are on the relevant pages. They are split here into four sections.
Entertainment
The Old Bedford Music Hall in Camden Town
Round the Horne – the iconic 1960’s comedy radio show
Flanders and Swann – the supreme variety song act
Leslie Welch – the Memory Man
Joseph Pujol – legendary music hall act – he farted
The British
Henry Andrews – editor of Old Moores Almanac
George Bradshaw – publisher of the famous railway timetables and maps
Thomas Clarkson – who fought to end slavery
Jerome K Jerome – author of Three Men in a Boat
St Bruno – after whom the tobacco was named, as well as the saint
Robert Tressell – author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Eccentrics
Lt Col William ‘Bill’ Boaks – Parliamentary candidate par excellence
Screaming Lord Sutch – aka David Sutch founder of the Monster Raving Looney Party
‘Professor’ Patrick Cullen – founder of Mammarism or the reading of naked breasts
Meta Davis – the inspiration for Paul MacCartney’s ‘Lovely Rita Meter Maid’
Michael Heseltine and Cecil Parkinson – who found themselves on a CND poster
Vot is Your Name – the original news item which sparked this legendary question
The Twelve Days of Christmas – what the lady really said to Mr Truelove
London
London walk from Goodge Street to Brecknock Road
London walk from Belsize Park over Hampstead Heath
London walk from Highgate along A1 to the City
London Markets – Petticoat Lane, the Monument and Chalk Farm