The London Village
London is a series of little villages, although a big city, London has a unique style of its own. If you know where to go you can get away from the busy streets and be in the countryside from one road to the next.
Take the above picture, less than a minute away from Euston Road - a six-lane carriageway, yet you can be transported to this Victorian side street looking in the unique shopping mall of Olde London. One time resident of this charming place was W. B. Yates the Irish Poet.
The Old Curiosity Shop in an offbeat corner of London. This little shop is known throughout the world. Charles Dickens made it famous in his book of the same name.
Tucked away from the busy traffic of Tottenham court road is this charming Village Garage in Bloomsbury, left behind from the 1930's, except for the prices that is. It was on the corner of Store Street and Ridgemount gardens, sadly now demolished.
This garage has been closed for some time and has since being demolished.
Once this fire station housed two fire engines, sirens, fire pole and several burly firefighters. Nowadays it stands hidden by the new road layout of busy Old Street. The road has been cut off with extended pavements in a crescent of Tabernacle Street and Paul Street, without passing traffic or clanging bells except maybe a tea trolley or the odd clinking wine glasses. It is now aptly named 'The Firehouse restaurant.'
And like the fire station you can expect a warm welcome here!
Lock & co the Hatters with a shop on St James's Street that dates back to the sixteenth century.
Grove Lane, Camberwell
Grove Lane, Camberwell 1897, looking like a country lane in those distant times
Grove Lane, named after the line of Grove trees, which once led from a Tudor manor house at the top of the hill where afforded a views of the City of London, three miles north could be enjoyed. The dilapidated Manor house was demolished in the mid 1770s, with the surrounding land subdivided and sold. The first four houses, still survive to this day (numbered 79–85),
Houses and railings part of the terrace, built 1778
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