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The Primrose Gatherer More Detail
The Primrose Gatherer By Terry Trainor
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Beautiful poems about beautiful things. Nature at its best, go back 200 years, Explore London 120 years age. Social history and much more. Was voted best book of the decade.
Rainy nights. Golden days. Snow and Ice. More Detail
Rainy nights. Golden days. Snow and Ice. By Terry Trainor
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Many many years ago the news ripped through the London Workhouses, Through all Bethnel-green, Spitalfields and through the Minories, Along Tower-hill and up to Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, To the... More > very purlieus of the Seven Dials, and across the water in Southwark, Important news spread from ear to ear, overheard in chop houses, and cabs, Blackberries are ripe, and there are mushrooms in the forest turf. Like an electric thrill, it has darted far and wide, high and low, In the great workshops, whether sweating over a hot iron, or folding, Steaming dye-houses and hatteries or darting the shuttle amongst silken threads, The bread moulders, or makers of coffins for the dead, or their nails, To the farmers, the boys that roam the streets, and the hags in alleys, Everywhere there is just one thought, the blackberries are ripe.< Less
From London Slums to South Oxhey More Detail
From London Slums to South Oxhey By Terry Trainor
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It is a journey from the London Slums to a new green field council estate called South Oxhey. As I stumbled down a muddy road in the 1950's on a new London overspill estate. Rain fell in buckets... More > down my back dripping into my shirt cold and wet. These boarded up new terraced houses will soon be some body’s home but for now they stand empty. The bitter wind blows shutter boards to rattle against red brick window sills. Black L.C.C cast iron drainpipes and gutters Adorn the drain pipes a friendly emblem of the past. The settlers are proud of their embossed drain pipes. Across the road a man stands by a concrete lamppost shaped like a question mark not yet used. Trying to roll a cigarette his hands are wet the paper tears he shakes his wet head confused. He tries again but this time a large blob of water drops from his nose soaking all of his papers. He swears loadly stuffs his hands into his pockets and hurriedly walks off.< Less
rainy nights and golden days More Detail
rainy nights and golden days By Terry Trainor
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A history, in poetry, of two hundred years of changing landscapes. From the closure laws imposed over a period 1770's up to 1832. A beautiful book of days gone. Take yourself back to the days when... More > the only thing that mattered was it was raining.< Less
London Slums to South Oxhey More Detail
London Slums to South Oxhey By Terry Trainor
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Building The Beast Stumbling down a muddy road in the 1950's on a new London overspill estate. Rain fell in buckets down my back dripping into my shirt cold and wet. Boarded up new terraced houses... More > will soon be some body’s home, now standing empty. Wind blowing shutter boards rattling against red brick window sills. Black L.C.C cast iron drainpipes and gutters. Across the road a man stands by a concrete lamppost shaped like a question mark not yet used. Trying to roll a cigarette his hands are wet the paper tears he shakes his wet head confused.< Less
Victorian London Slums Seven Dials More Detail
Victorian London Slums Seven Dials By Terry Trainor
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In Dubious Battle What though the field be lost? All is not lost the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be... More > overcome? Milton Paradise Lost. The Argument.< Less
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Bedlam. St. Mary of Bethlehem By Terry Trainor
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The lunatics were first called "patients" in 1700, and "curable" and "incurable" wards were opened in 1725-34. In the 18th century people used to go to Bedlam to stare... More > at the lunatics. For a penny one could peer into their cells, view the freaks of the "show of Bethlehem" and laugh at their antics, generally of a sexual nature or violent fights. Entry was free on the first Tuesday of the month. Visitors were permitted to bring long sticks with which to poke and enrage the inmates. In 1814 alone, there were 96,000 such visits. 'It was so loathsomely and filthily kept that it was not fit for any man or woman to come into. Situated variously in Bishopsgate, Moorfields and Lambeth, one of the main attractions over the centuries for the London mob was the Bethlehem Royal Hospital or Bedlam'.< Less
Bedlam. St. Mary of Bethlehem More Detail
Bedlam. St. Mary of Bethlehem By Terry Trainor
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The Monros were also owners of private ‘madhouses’ in Hackney and Clerkenwell, and visiting physicians to scores of others. Indeed the family name ‘Monro’, became synonymous... More > with the very word ‘mad-doctor’. Absenteeism of the medical officers at Bethlem led to patients too often being at the mercy of untrained and overstretched staff. This was a central point of the shocking revelations of the Parliamentary enquiry into ‘madhouses’ in 1815/16. James Monro, and his son John, had already suffered a public scandal with the publication of ‘A Treatise on Madness’ in 1758. Here, William Battie, physician to the London asylum of St. Luke’s, argued that Bethlem and the treatment doled out by the Monros, was antiquated, negligent and abusive. So began the great rivalry between the two establishments< Less
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Victorian London Slums Seven Dials By Terry Trainor
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The Seven Dials refers to the layout of the cobbled streets in this London ‘village,’ which includes Monmouth Street, Earlham Street and Mercer Street. The seven streets radiate out from... More > the central sundial Looking closely you'll see the dial only has only six faces; this is due to an earlier urban planning drawn up by Thomas Neale in the 17th century who devised the characteristic seven dials street layout to maximize the number of houses that could be built on the site so maximizing his profit.< Less
Slums of London to South Oxhey More Detail
Slums of London to South Oxhey By Terry Trainor
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He would have seen girls and boys of only six years old just a year older than him bundled into carts and transported like cattle, often hundreds of miles away, to work in the factories and mills of... More > Britain’s industrial heartlands, where they would be beaten as they laboured 16 hours a day in exchange for a few spoonfuls of gruel.< Less