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Gosh, Leinster Gardens looks so very "nice" from the front, and ghastly from the back. I can even smell the Tube trains from that picture! Ugh!

Now I think you have been to 3 sporting venues during an event and watched the action from outside. Wembley football, Ascot racing and now Lords cricket. (I think you missed Wimbledon last week).
I wonder what other sports arenas you will see from the outside. Will we get a dg report from outside of the London Olympics on opening day!?

If you had taken your walk on Friday you could have watched the Rolling Bridge in action at Paddington Basin.

I wonder whether she got the Royal Parks police or the proper lot. You are showing your age. The Royal Parks police no longer independently exists and hasn't for a number of years. Instead there is an "operational command unit" within the Metropolitan police (equivalent to a borough) that deal specifically with parks incidents but this does nor mean that parks officers cannot deal with any incident in the Met area (or anywhere else in England and Wales and its territorial waters for that matter) or vice versa. The officers are not in any way different from their colleagues outside the parks perimeter.

23 and 24 Leinster Terrace are adresses you will hear not infrequently if you watch post-war British films. It is often given as an address to which something (usually flowers for the romantic interest) are to be delivered.

I don't have any citation for this to hand. I believe I learned it from a book called "Blimey, not another book about London" which is well worth having. http://www.amazon.com/Blimey-Another-Book-about-London/dp/0717941949. My copy is in one of many boxes of books I have yet to unpack.

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23-24 Leinster Gardens. Leinster Terrace is the bit towards the park that doesn't have a terrace. Great stuff as ever.

I didn't know about the Leinster Gardens fakes. It made me feel uneasy...but I am not sure why.

Ah yes, Gardens not Terrace. What with the "their"/"there", I've now gone back and done five "find and replaces", thanks.

Apparently, according to the 'Do Not Pass Go' book, Leinster Gardens was semi-regularly used as a fraud address with people selling tickets to parties there. Only when the guests rocked up did they realise they'd been had.

When I visit London, I usually stay at a hotel in Leinster Gardens, just beside the sham houses.


Have you seen the 1950s film "The Blue Lamp" with Dirk Bogarde? There's a wonderful street police chase at the end where the camera pans over the Paddington of that time - much like it was in Victorian times, pre vast car use.

How loud is it living in the flats right next to the fake addresses? I'd imagine very!!











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