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A miscellany of curious facts, historical whimsy, architecture delights in and around this lovely pa

Cold War Biological Tests Carried Out On The Northern Line 24/03/2022

Revealed: The secret tests undertaken in the 1960's to test the effects of a biological attack on the Underground system.

Cold War Biological Tests Carried Out On The Northern Line Thanks to the release of papers from the National Archive we now know that the Ministry of Defence simulated biological attacks on the underground in the early 1960s, during the…

Old Moore - Astrologer And Mystic 25/02/2022

Old Moore - Astrologer And Mystic Old Moore’s Almanack is an astrological Almanack that has been published in Britain since 1697 and is still in production today. It was first written by Dr Francis Moore, who…

The Lost Civil War Fort's of Lambeth 18/02/2022

Read about the English Civil War defences that surrounded London and find out where the forts were located in Lambeth.

The Lost Civil War Fort's of Lambeth In 1643, the order was given to construct a vast wall around London. The city needed protection from the Royalist army of Charles I. The Civil War fortifications were the…

Kennington home to the Lambeth Drug Mill 02/12/2021

The story and pictures of the windmills of North Lambeth

Kennington home to the Lambeth Drug Mill It might be hard to believe but at one stage our part of Kennington used to be home to a number of windmills, including the curiously named Drug Mill. Unfortunately,…

The killer of flies and a right miserable git 29/11/2021

A strange fellow, who was clearly very set in his ways.

The killer of flies and a right miserable git This is the story of Joseph Capper, the 18th-century eccentric, who made a Kennington Pub his home for 25 years. Such was his notoriety that his life story is recorded…

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