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Black Plaques
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Memorials to Misadventure; Black Plaques® lift the carefully-placed rug to discover an awkward stain. London book out now.
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February 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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That speaks to the influence of @tripeuk.bsky.social faqs
February 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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The Sausage Marketing Board should erect a statue of Florence Brewer on the Strand
February 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Just imagine the fireworks at the 400th anniversary
December 16, 2024 at 11:00 PM
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Sorry – no big anniversary parade this year
December 16, 2024 at 10:42 PM
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Text from Samuel Pepys' diary, Dec 16 1665: 'Thence back, and landing at the Old Swan and taking boat again at Billingsgate and setting ashore at home; and I, lying down close in my boat, and there, without use of my hand, had great pleasure, and the first time I did make trial of my strength of fancy of that kind without my hand, and had it complete avec la fille que I did see aujourdui in Westminster Hall'
December 16, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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"She was nude, and was tampering with the levers"
A newspaper report of 1925 explaining that the girl had a peculiar mania for driving locomotive engines and this was her second such exploit. No explanation is offered for her nude condition.
December 12, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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Toby the Sapient pig doing the numbers for the Dept for International Trade on Whitehall or was that 1785
A coloured print from 1785 showing Toby the Sapient pig picking from a row of cards on the instructions of his keeper, surrounded by an audience of (fee paying) spectators. The spectacle was housed in a building opposite Horse Guards on Whitehall. A building housing The Department for International Trade opposite Horse Guards on Whitehall, London
November 27, 2024 at 1:12 PM