Strand
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Matthew and Mary Darley made their name by having the macaroni print shop on the Strand, where she basically drew caricatures of all these effeminate men, created, popularized the macaroni.
from 551: No Such Thing As President Iceberg, 2024-10-03 at 00:20:56 · read transcript
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It was by Jacob Epstein, who is this avant-garde, quite brutalist sculptor, and it was one of his first major commissions. He has this quite long history of creating sculptures. He has one on them. what's now Zimbabwe House on the Strand. That's also been massively defaced because it was just full of naked people and people didn't like that in Edwardian Britain. This one, it was kind of a compromise because there was public outcry and the head of the tube at the time offered his resignation to keep the statue.
No Such Thing As Sexy Mucus Pajamas, 2016-01-01 · listen
In the 18th century there was a collection of camels on display on the strand just around the corner from us So it was at the Talbot Inn in the Strand and it belonged to a man called Richard Heppenstool And so that's exactly where Aldwich tube station used to be which I think is just at.
No Such Thing As The Train King Of Europe, 2017-01-27 · listen
Exactly. Just to write a letter to someone saying, you brute. Yeah. A lady picketed his house. Fans wore black armbands. Twenty thousand people cancelled their subscriptions to the Strand magazine, which it was being published as a periodical. Yeah, and then I guess he eventually brought it back. That must have been a confusing time for him, I guess. A.A. Milne really hated Winnie the Pooh.
No Such Thing As An Anti-German Sock, 2015-05-29 · listen
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