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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

we saw/heard Kenny at one of his last gigs at Pizza Express, in London. There is a tremendous BBC TV documentary from the early 1980s. He had, for some time, been a Postman in East London :) Photography is not one of my life-skills LoL.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tony Ray-Jones. I have driven past his plaque on (Gloucester Place, Marylebone, London) endless number of times. Here the Lancashire Britannia Nutters (I know, I know ...) are a foil to, what is I think, is a Daimler with the bonnet-up.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sail and Steam. Two of Gaselee's tugs with the three bands on the funnel, 'heavy-lifting'. Strangely, the current Clerk of the Worshipful Company of Weavers, is a son of the last Gaselee on the River.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I have had a fortunate life. Sixteen years ago, I happened to be in the same Room as the wonderful Tim Garland. I was much slimmer and darker in those days ! The Pheasantry, King's Road, Chelsea.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Max Roach Park, on (the) Brixton Road, South London.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So kind. Thank you. I must be locally in Barnet for Brunch on Friday. Go well. I picked this some years ago :)

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

After two years, one of my Drum Kits (the small one) has been moved from my 'Arthur Daley' lock-up, to our house. A wonderful domestic development ! The 'woodshed' is GO!

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Gosh, I had forgotten my forays to Churchill Gardens.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A parish boundary mark ? Any thoughts ? Perhaps not London. Norwich ? I have no idea.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

@jdmccafferty.bsky.social This came up recently. There's one on eBay, but a bit expensive. I'll bide my time. Looks interesting.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Reminds me of this. I'm the lowly SJP :) I like the cheeky suggesting that JWE ought to pay special attention !

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Oh, Hi Richard. Thanks for that. Greetings to all Vintners. I have a very happy memory of singing your song in the Hall (and drinking your wine!). All good wishes.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@tracelarkhall.bsky.social StML APCM tonight. I'm not expecting any riots :)

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

No worries. I was at Lloyd's for nineteen years. The atmosphere for a seventeen year-old in this place was electric !

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Whitsun-Tide by Sir Alfred Munnings. An artist scorned by so many (or so I understand). I wonder whether there is still a Fun-Fair on Chingford Plains in Epping Forest. There still is on Hampstead Heath, I think.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Whitsun. And what a glorious day, weather-wise here in fashionable North London. El Greco, I think.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I must confess that not being massively into Football, the Jewish connection only occurred to me in adulthood. Our docker friends when I was kid, might go to Charlton when WH were away. Millwall was a no-no, natch. My first home match programme :) 58 'bus from Chingford with older lads.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I've been spending days labelling the photos on my hard drive. One group is titled 'Heading In' of which I post on my FB feed. The other is titled 'Full English". I do not photo food, as a rule, but I have a bit of a 'thing' about the perfect Full English Breakfast (and Fish & Chips). Samples:

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Ascension Day greetings. Today is the Election Court of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks; as it has been for some hundreds of years. A new Master and Wardens shall be elected for the ensuing year. It's a joyous occasion.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Although I have eaten in the George & Vulture a number of times in the last forty years, I had never noticed these two parish boundary marks which are located *inside* the main bar and restaurant. Somewhat famously, the City Pickwick Club meet at the G&V four times per year.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Today I had a huge, post-Church Lunch in the George & Vulture in the City of London. The G&V used to be the more expensive (and better) version of Simpson's on Ball Court off of Cornhill (not Simpson's in the Strand). It's now a Samuel Smith's PH and slightly generic; with no cask ale.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Here is St Michael's Alley. Off of Cornhill. So named after St Michael's Church. This area has changed quite a bit in my lifetime; but in some ways, has not changed at all.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Change Alley, off Cornhill in the City of London. So named after the Royal Exchange which is close-by.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

When I went to work in the City of London in 1976, one would see at 10:30 Discount House bankers walking down Cornhill to the @bankofengland.bsky.social to do business. This method of dealing in large sums of borrowed money finished with so-called 'Big Bang' I really must get a good top hat :)

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This captures so much. From the hard-drive :)

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Spinning vinyl. Consumate artistry. Part of my #JourneyIntoJazz Bringing-in top drawer West Coast session musicians, must have caused some tension within the Band. Only saw/heard them once; at Capital Radio Jazz Festival, Knebworth c1982.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Ten years ago, that most intriguing and (possibly) over-hyped* bit of archeology, London Stone, was re-sited in the front wall recess of a refurbed office block on Cannon Street in the City of London. *discuss Photo unattributed.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The imagery of Gog, Magog, Turtle Soup and Dragons was not lost to my parents and their generation of Londoners, but I suspect that these (albeit mocking) civic symbols are lost on today's generation.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

From 09/2008: A nice clutch of cast-iron marks. Ownership mark for the Skinners' Company Ownership Mark for the Dyers' Company Parish Boundary Mark: St John the Baptist Walbrook Parish Boundary Mark: St Michael Paternoster Royal

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Photo 05/2009. The huge redevelopment by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths of their Harding bequest estate, just off New Fetter Lane in the City of London. Neatly painted property ownership marks abound.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Sadly, for better or worse, as a consequence of the Elizabeth Line development in Smithfield in the City of London, we lost this gem. I don't doubt that offal is readily available across the street in London Central Markets (Smithfield).

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Photo on left taken 9/2009. Located on Hayne Street in the City of London (just). I presumed that they had been long-gone due to the Crossrail development, BUT when I was in Smithfield a month ago (with camera), I found that they had been cleaned-up and re-sited.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

From my hard-drive 2010. A clutch of cast-iron marks located on Jewry Street on the City of London. Jewry Street follows the line of the Roman Wall. Boundary mark for the parish of St Katharine Cree. Boundary mark for Aldgate Ward. A City Lands Committee of the CoL ownership mark; pertaining to ?

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Following the sad death of Tony Wilson, co-founder of Hot Chocolate; here is a little something from my hard-drive.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Have finally dug this pic out from 2019 I think. Was on a nasty post blitz building on Farringdon Street by Turnagain Lane. A large ownership mark in the entrance door portal. No idea why it's 90 degrees out !

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The Rugby Estate in Holborn, London. Next to the Harpur Estate of Bedford.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is good ! :) Worshipful Company of Ironmongers holdings in Finsbury / St Luke's. All from one bequest, I believe. There are some ownership marks dotted around the area.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A lovely impression of the last Hall of the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks. Sadly bombed during the Blitz. The Company's third and final Hall. Was in Silver Street / Wood Street in the City of London.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I'm stuck in the house, as the Council are (thankfully) re-surfacing our street. Going through photos on hard-drive. Here is the spire of St Margaret Lothbury from the roof of the @bankofengland.bsky.social Must be during the War.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A couple of (unattributed) photos of the huge industrial action which took place during the building of the Barbican in the City Of London. c1967 I think. The strikes were quite protracted, to say the least.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I picked this up last evening. A purchase from FB Marketplace. *Not* stolen goods ! Weighs a ton; brass castors on the front legs. From Guildhall in the City of London. I wonder what civic bums have graced this chair.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Am at a funeral today at St Giles Cripplegate. Thanks to @stgilescg.bsky.social for the photo.

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Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Our new Rector will be living in... the Rectory, which used to be a flat off of Gresham Street in the heart of the City of London. The Diocese sold the gaff; putting our then Rector into a house in the East End. The Diocese then came up with the flat in the tower of St Dunstan in the East. See pic:

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