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Enjoyed a few good nights in the London Hospital tavern close to TLH, many moons ago.

Colin in Thailand | 13.08.08 - 6:42 a.m. | #

Amazing thread on the Flikr photo of the "DOSS HOUSE"!! Never knew about it.

Actually, dg, Stalin and co were off daily to the long vanished Brotherhood Church at the bottom of Southgate Road, corner of Balmes Rd N1. for their conference. This church was badly smashed up in, I think, 1917 by the mob when an anti-war meeting was taking place inside.

Fascinating Stuff as usual.

felix | 13.08.08 - 6:52 a.m. | #

Details of the precise location of the 5th Russian Congress are thin on the ground, but all the sources I've seen (apart, felix, from the Evening Standard link you've given above) say it was in Fulbourne Street.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.08.08 - 7:59 a.m. | #

I understand the doctors' bleeps work in the Grave Maurice.

Debster | Homepage | 13.08.08 - 9:26 a.m. | #

ยป Woods Buildings: A grimy brick Victorian alleyway,only recently sealed off behind a locked metal gate, presumably because scores of Jack the Ripper hunters used to walk down it for a bit of genuine slum ambience.

Not quite correct, After numerous complaints to the Local Council over a period of several years by members of the public as well as the people who's front doors open onto Woods Buildings the alleyway was gated off not because of the Jack the Ripper Tours but due to the fact that numerous people were using it as a public Toilet, and I am not talking about just urinating up the walls, the problem only originally started when the Council in all its wisdom / penny pinching closed down the very large, very handy,much frequented Victorian Underground Public Convenience a short distance away that that was located adjacent to The Black Bull Public House. A new "Restaurant" was built on the site of the old toilets and this was accidently demolished in the middle of the night by an out of control Coach on its way to Stansted Airport.

fishislandskin | 13.08.08 - 11:01 a.m. | #

And for those of us with short sightedness, if you need a class old school optician, look no further than Mr Sackwild, half way down the parade.

dg agrees: thumbs up to Mr Sackwild.

Martin | 13.08.08 - 2:13 p.m. | #

Thanks dg...My copy of HEAVENS BELOW (1961) by W H G Armytage p376 gives Brotherhood Church as the location, as reported in the Daily News by HN Brailsford, the famous left wing journalist. Could be checked at Colindale.

felix | 13.08.08 - 2:29 p.m. | #

The International Saree Centre has quite an illustrious past as it happens. The reason Merrick lived there was that it belonged to a showman, who opened it up as a waxworks. In autumn 1888 he quickly erected wax representations of the Ripper murders in the windows to draw visitors, which led to a street riot occurring right outside.

Alan | Homepage | 13.08.08 - 3:19 p.m. | #

Don't forget the Lord Rodney's Head - another timewarp pub, complete with sergeant-out-of-zulu handlebar moustached guv'nor, panelled walls and creaky floorboards. Gutted in about 2001 to become the (ahem) 'Funkee Munkee' bar, which lasted about 10 minutes. It's now the Shoe Box footwear emporium. The Rodney's sign is still swinging forlornly.

Gareth | Homepage | 13.08.08 - 6:59 p.m. | #

I'm forever grateful to the Royal London Hospital after my father went in there with an emergency haematoma in his head. I didn't have any expectation that it would the best hospital to be in, until I learnt the hospital specialises in this sort of surgery, as they have so many boxers in the area!

Clipper | 16.08.08 - 1:26 a.m. | #











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