Gardens

This is my sister, Kate, eating ice cream (or is it yoghurt?) on a September day in 1982. This was a few years before I was born, but it's evocative of my own childhood memories of the Strand.

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Strand Lines

Sitting in St James’ park

In a sunspot quite and serene

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An image of Pushka - the inspiration for my poem Pushka - also on Strandlines

Pushka

The little Russian doll

was called Babushka

The name was evocative

of my feline pal Pushka

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Sketch of the Adelphi Terrace and Hotel Cecil from Embankment Gardens

King's College London Archives (Ref: K/PH1/22 /1/18), view from Embankment Gardens of the Adelphi Terrace and Hotel Cecil in the environs of the College by Howard Penton.

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Poem titled ‘King’s College School, Strand Days’ from the King’s College Review, 1917, p.63

King's College London Archives (Ref: K/SER1/63), December 1917, King’s College Review, Vol. 19-20 No.2, anonymous poem titled ‘King’s College School, Strand Days’.

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Work is still going on, long after Bazalgette.