Locked out By Nic Price on 21 July 2005 — 1 min read Thanks to my feedreader getting in a muddle over what year it is I got to see this the other day which really made me chuckle: The Secure Entrance Paradox To the Residents… One of our engineers visited today to repair the fault in your Secure Entrance System. Unfortunately, we were unable to gain entrance.... More
London Pride By Nic Price on 8 July 2005 — 1 min read London Pride has been handed down to us. London Pride is a flower that’s free. London Pride means our own dear town to us, And our pride it for ever will be. Oh Liza! See the coster barrows, Vegetable marrows and the fruit piled high. Oh Liza! Little London sparrows, Covent Garden Market where the... More
London bombs By Nic Price on 7 July 2005 — 1 min read What a difference a day makes. Yesterday London was united in euphoria following the success of the Olympic bid. Today I’ve heard words like shock, disbelief, grief, confusion, panic, calm. First there was talk of power surges on the underground. Then as reports came through of an explosion on a double-decker bus, the horrible truth... More
Teen ‘sleepwalks to top of crane’ By Nic Price on 7 July 2005 — 1 min read A teenage sleepwalker was rescued after being found asleep on the arm of a 130ft crane, police have revealed. Police and firefighters were called to a building site in south east London, after a passer-by spotted the girl. The unnamed 15-year-old had apparently left her home near the site, climbed the crane and walked across... More
Awesome! By Nic Price on 6 July 2005 — 1 min read The waiting is over. The Olympics will be in London in 2012. What a superb performance by Seb Coe and the team. Fantastic decision, fantastic news. More
Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner By Nic Price on 6 July 2005 — 1 min read I am a bundle of nerves listening to the live announcements of the IOC’s whittling down of the contending cities for the 2012 Olympic Games. Moscow, New York and Madrid have been voted out. It’s now between London and Paris… the decision has been made and will be announced at 12.46 BST. More
So farewell then… By Nic Price on 26 June 2005 — 1 min read …Richard Whitely Channel 4 afternoons will be a strange place without you Count down More
Lordship Lane pub crawl By Nic Price on 23 June 2005 — 1 min read If you’re looking for somewhere to have a cold beer or a bloody mary in East Dulwich, here’s a useful guide on the Lordship Lane page of the Open Guide to London. The great thing about the page and the site is that if you have something you want to add or edit you can... More
Arms razed By Nic Price on 23 June 2005 — 1 min read The Eaton Arms, a dodgy looking pub opposite the top of Rye Lane in Peckham disappeared in double-quick time early this morning due to some poor scaffolding work. Last orders The scaffolding had been erected around the and recently derelicted Cooperative Buildings which has a listed facade and the adjoining pub. On my cycle journey... More