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Jul 9
2 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 9| Rationing

In 1947, two years after the end of World War 2 and the same year that Shamus Dust is set, Gallup polled the British Public and asked wha...

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Jun 8
4 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 8| Floating on the Thames

In 1947, when SHAMUS DUST is set, there were passages like these everywhere along the Thames waterfront, downstream from London’s Tower B...

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Mar 28
2 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 7| Sun Street Passage|Bishopsgate

"Eighty yards along Liverpool Street, past the empty cab ranks, was a high, narrow, soot-brick alley named Sun Street Passage for a joke....

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Mar 23
4 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 6| Great Eastern Hotel|Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate

There are hotels and there are hotels. Then in 1886, at the height of the railway boom in England, there was the Great Eastern Hotel!

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Feb 2
2 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 5| Bedlam|Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate

Right on this spot used to be the hospital of St. Mary Bethlehem. Bedlam. The madhouse. Only they don’t put up a sign to say so ...

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Dec 27, 2019
3 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 4 | Snow Hill, Farringdon

"I was renting an office in the Thornburgh Building that year, a stucco-fronted block near the top of Snow Hill. It was about the one bui...

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Dec 15, 2019
4 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 3 | Cloth Fair, Cloth Court | West Smithfield

Set under an arch in the north wall of St. Bartholomew-the-Great is an ancient doorway that in all the times I've ever been into the chur...

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Dec 11, 2019
4 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 2 | Saint Bartholomew-the-Great, West Smithfield

"The streetlamp hung off a half-timber gatehouse in the middle of a row of storefronts with offices over, there to light the gatehouse ar...

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Dec 6, 2019
4 min

A SHAMUS IN LONDON 1 | The Tipperary, Fleet Street

"The line sputtered and died. I put the telephone back in its cradle and cleared my breath off the window glass. Twenty feet below, Fleet...

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Oct 7, 2019
2 min

WHISTLER'S RIVER

Think of the City of London as the shape of an orange segment. The curve to the north is the line of its landward Roman wall. The straigh...

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Sep 5, 2019
1 min

Slaughter in Smithfield

In the Middle Ages, Smithfield - or the Smooth Field - sat just outside the City walls, on the east bank of the Fleet River tributary to ...

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