Your London, My London

This blog started with other goals in mind, but is now devoted to biographical essays about notable men and women who are buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London. I am posting essays here at the same time that I am sending related short stories to my subscribers. If you're interested in the short stories as well as these biographical essays, please visit www.shortshortshort.com for more information about my story subscriptions. Feel free to contact me at bruce@sff.net.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

George Cockburn

›
London's National Maritime Museum owns a portrait of Sir George Cockburn (1772–1853) as painted by John James Halls in 1817. Admiral Co...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Thomas Wakley

›
The Lancet is one of the world's most important peer-reviewed medical journals. The name of the journal refers not only to the medical...
Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Kensal Green Cemetery stories

›
Below is a biography of John Cumming. He is buried at the Kensal Green Cemetery near our London flat, and I visited his grave in preparatio...

John Cumming

›
John Cumming (1807-1881) must have been impressive in the pulpit. As a young man of twenty-four, while he was working as a private tutor, h...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

The things you miss in the U.S...

›
Ah, the things you miss by surfing the web in the U.S. instead of the U.K. Here in London, a yahoo page showed me an ad featuring a blonde ...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

›
On Saturday I'm going to watch the Six Nations tournament match between England and Wales with my friends Colin and Kate Harvey. I have...
2 comments:

The answer is...

›
Does this begin to clear up the mystery? Click on the image to enlarge.
Monday, March 12, 2007

›
Above are three objects that I found on the sidewalks of London this week. Do you know what they are? (If you have ever lived in Britain, ...
2 comments:
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

The First Window Cleaners of 2007

›
On New Year's Day, a man carrying a ladder appeared at our front door asking if we wanted the windows cleaned. At first, since only a t...
1 comment:
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.