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Tales of the lesser known people, places and peculiarities of London, with a particular interest in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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In the winter of 1762 a young man waited anxiously in a London coffee house for a reply to an unusual advertisement he had placed in a Dublin newspaper. https://t.co/f115QKpi7w

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THE TWELVE DAYS OF DICKENS’S CHRISTMAS. Day 4. Pip’s Xmas dinner was “the scaly tips of the drumsticks of the fowls” and “those obscure corners of pork of which the pig, when living, had had the least reason to be vain”.

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John Willis was a humble taxidermist with premises in Seven Dials, a notorious slum in the heart of Victorian London. One day in 1864 he had an unexpected visit followed by an unusual request, which earned for him a strange sort of immortality. https://t.co/sX0tRdqudm

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