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His Family & Other Animals. December 2011.
Dear Rowley, Well darling, the Grim Reaper’s been busy again this Christmastide though he had the good taste to leave my nearest and dearest alone this time. I was sorry to hear that Mirror columnist Sue Carroll had gone to the … Continue reading
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Tagged All About Eve, As Long As He Needs Me, BBC, Bette Davis, Better HAlf, Bloomsbury Square, Busby Berkeley, Daily Mirror, Dear Rowley, Estee Lauder, Evelyn Lauder, Fasten Your Seatbelts, Gillian Anderson, Great Expectations, Grim Reaper, Henry Poole & Co, Hesling Family, James Sherwood, Julia Tucker, Leonard Lauder, London. Bloomsbury Towers, Mapp & Lucia, Mess Dress, Midnight Mass, Miss Havisham, Moaning Myrtle, New York, Oliver, Once in Royal David' s City, Richard & Judy, Richard Sherwood, Robinson Crusoe, Rudolph Valentino, Steve Tucker, Sue Carroll, Surrey, The Sheik, Total Wipeout
The Cleveland Street Scandal. December 2011.
Dear Rowley, Well darling, it’s confirmed that Russell Square will be the ‘Media Hub’ for the Olympic Games next year. What can it mean? So far all that’s transpired is that the traffic in Bloomsbury Square has quadrupled now they … Continue reading
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Tagged 10th Hussars, 2012 Olympics, Battle of Waterloo, Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury Towers, Boucher Courtesan, Capri Dry Cleaner Southampton Row, Catherine the Great of Russia, Chris Hoy, Cleveland Street brothel scandal, Crown Prince Rudolph, Dear Rowley, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Entertaining Mr Sloane, Extra Equerry to the Prince of Wales, Fitzrovia brothel 19 Cleveland Street, Gail, Henry Poole & Co, Holborn Sorting Office, Jack the Ripper, James Sherwood, King Edward VII, King George IV, King George V, Little Women, London, Looney Tunes, Lord Arthur Somerset, Lord Coe, Maria Vetsera, Marilyn Monroe, Mayerling, Miss Jean Brodie, Newcastle University, Prince Albert Victor, Prince Charles, Prince Eddy, Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld, Queen Victoria, Rialto, Royal Archive Windsor Castle, Rudolph Valentino, Russell Square Olympic Media Hub, Savile Row, Stratford East, Suzi Perry, Thames & Hudson, The Fall of Rome, Theo Aronson, You Me Bum Bum Train, Zola Budd
Lady Sang the Blues. July 2011.
Dear Rowley, Well, as the prostitute said, ‘it’s not the work, it’s the stairs’. This gem came from octogenarian diva Elaine Stritch who also said of anyone under 70 singing I’m Still Here, ‘where have they been?’ The prostitute bon … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Winehouse, Amy Winehouse dead, Bette Midler, Billie Holiday, Bloomsbury Square, Camden Square, Dear Rowley, Diana Ross, Elaine Strich, I'm Still Here, James Sherwood, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Lady Sings the Blues, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Liza Minnelli, London, Marilyn Monroe, New York, Noel Coward, Rehab, Slough of Despont, St Lucia, Stonewall Riots, Strange Fruit, The Priory, The Rose, Valerie, Vivien Leigh
Road Rage April 2011
Dear Rowley, Finally back at home as black as a pit pony having spent another afternoon in the Henry Poole & Co archive trying to track down the founder of the Buchanan whiskey dynasty – a one James Buchanan – … Continue reading
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Tagged 1877, Amanda Wakeley, Anne of the Thousand Days, Anne Robinson, BAFTA, Bloomsbury Square, Bloomsbury Towers, Brideshead Revisited, Bridge, Buchanan Whiskey, Catherine MIddleton, Cyclists, Dear Rowley, Edward & Mrs Simpson, Eton, Fashion at Royal Ascot: Three Centuries of Thoroughbred Style, Gail from Capri, Geneveve Bujold, Gieves & Hawkes, Helen MIrren, Henry Poole & Co, Holborn Health Spa, House of Cards, I Claudius, James Sherwood, Jonathan Reece-Myers, Lady Elizabeth Anson, Lennox Lewis, Letters from Bloomsbury Square, Mapp & Lucia, Mary Queen of Scots, Maxine PEak, Natalie Dormer, Niamh, Oxford, Prime Suspect, Prince William, Queen Anne Boleyn, Radio 3, RAf Uniform, Rupert Penry-Jones, Scottish, Silk, Southwark Cathedral, Switzerland, The Savoy, The Tudors, Welsh Anne Robinson, Westminster Abbey