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Tweets for April 2021

Hackney dawn and sunset.

Tweets for March 2021

The J. Studds beehive, symbolising industry but also his coke ovens, at Balls Pond/Newington Green.

The great Victoria Park nursery rhyme schism of 2021

Retrograde Akira resolves a bitter “Row, row, row your boat” confrontation between Hackney and Tower Hamlets parents. Includes a Newfie joke.

The tune in question from <a href='https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23960'>Round</a> in Grove.

Tweets for September 2020

Social distancing is difficult on Well Street, Hackney.

The satyr’s head and 1680 Bagnigge House plaque at 61-63 Kings Cross Road

An explanation, featuring the 17th century goldsmith Simon Thriscrosse, Bagnigge Wells Spa, and, for idle googlers, Nell Gwyn.

The monument in 2005.

April 2020 tweets

Homerton/Clapton and Stepney/Whitechapel. Being pecked to death by ravens & other corvids.

The gnomes of Glyn Road, Clapton are waiting for the last human to die, so they can move in.

Stanley Johnson: rock ‘n’ roll drummer, magician, Hackney style icon

The best-dressed man on Well Street talks about his work with Gene “Be-bop-a-Lula” Vincent and much more. With several exclusive photos.

Stanley Johnson, Well Street, <a href='https://twitter.com/elorganillero/status/1203402212115984385'>December 2019</a>. More photos to come, deo volente, and do check the portrait at the end.

John Gay’s Fable 40: The Two Monkeys

They are shocked by their reception on attending Southwark fair: Men laugh at apes, they men contemn; / For what are we, but Apes to them?

May tweets

Lots of Ramsgate photos, plus the usual nonsense.

Seagull raiding the Wetherspoon Royal Victoria Pavilion, Ramsgate.

April tweets

Just the usual load of nonsense.

Jimmy Brennan panning for gold in the Sperrins, Tyrone in 1983.