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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.

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.

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.

The post-Napoleonic miseries in Llanuwchllyn and Bala (Merioneth), Liverpool, Sheffield, London and New York of the orphans of Thomas and Catherine Jones of Nantfach Farm, north of Bala; and of the children of Simon and Mari Jones of the smithy at Y Lôn, Llanuwchllyn. From a 1965 piece in the Liverpool Daily Post.