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From Garlick Hill to Pratt’s Bottom, London is full of weird and wonderful place names. We’ve just published the second edition of A.D. Mills’s A Dictionary of London Place Names, so I thought I would check out the roots of some of London’s most famous addresses.
Did Eddie Cochran’s tour of the UK and death fifty years ago lead to the Beatles?
Gordon Thompson on February 1965.
An original post from Gordon Thompson.
Gordon Thompson shares his favorite books.
The answer to Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
The answer to last week’s riddle.
The solution to Gordon Thompson’s riddle.
Can you answer Gordon Thompson’s riddle?
The answer to yesterday’s riddle.
The riddle answer!
The 40th anniversary of Tommy.
A look at The Beatles in the late 60’s.
Chris Smith wonders why humans obsess over lists.
Gordon Thompson looks at The Beatles.