#Great Titchfield Street

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Obituary: Johnny Andrews (1942-2024)

Johnny Andrews was manager of the Kings Arms, Great Titchfield Street from 1970 to 2019. Johnny Andrews, who died at the age of 81 in August this year, was an accounts clerk who became a long-running manager of the Kings Arms pub on Great Titchfield Street in Fitzrovia. Andrews retired as manager in July 2019 having held the position since 1970. On his retirement he told friends that he was…

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(The trump pic made me laugh so I had to include it)

Robbie there is just right on the edge of getting it, at least he seems to know that this is something that took place.

The reason they're telling his story, if it is based on him, is because why not tell his story, we've got 1000 pieces of media about

This is a article from 2010 about the guy robbie mentions there.

As London suffered the full force of the German Luftwaffe bombing raids 70 years ago this week the story of Nigerian Ita Ekpenyon has been uncovered by the City of Westminster Archives.

The blitz and the response of Londoners is now the stuff of legend and the story of Ita demonstrates that integrity, responsibility commitment and sacrifice are not qualities confined to the English.

Ita Ekpenyon is the personification of London’s Blitz spirit and he along with over 15.000 Africans living in London at the time are for the first time being recognised and their bravery acknowledged.

Ita Ekpenyon was one of over 200,000 Londoners who volunteered as Air Raid Protection (ARP) wardens.

Black British experiences from the Blitz, is now being told by City of Westminster Archives in a new project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Ita arrived in London from Nigeria in 1921 at the age of 28. When war broke out in 1939 he was living at 146 Great Titchfield Street, near Oxford Circus, and studying to become a lawyer.

At 46, Ita was too old for military service but his sense of civic duty led him to volunteer for civilian defence duties. On 5 February 1940, Ita was enrolled as an ARP Warden with D Section, St Marylebone Borough Council Civil Defence Volunteer group. According to his unit’s records, he experienced raid after raid, putting out incendiary bomb fires, giving first aid and conducting population counts as the bombs fell all over the capital. ______________________________________

Sounds like a story that's begging to be told to me right there, kinda wish that was what it is about, looks to be more than that though. _________________________________________

George, McQueen’s child protagonist, was inspired by a picture the filmmaker came across while researching his television series Small Axe, which showed a small black boy being evacuated from the city. On his journey back home to his mother after being evacuated, George discovers much about his city – and himself.

A key scene shows George wandering through the old Islington Empire Arcade, encountering dioramas and murals of black workers, ever under the control of their white colonial masters. There he meets Isey, a Nigerian air raid warden, who cares for him and finds him a space in a shelter.

The shelter shows the diversity of blitzed London that was captured by the photographer Bill Brandt: Jewish families, Sikh families and white families crammed together in the squalor of the makeshift shelters below the city in the first weeks of air raids. When a white couple try to segregate the shelter by race, Isey reprimands them, reminding them that they are all fighting Hitler and the Nazi belief in a race war.

Blitz deserves to find a large audience. Not just because it retells a familiar story in a new way and gives voice to those whose stories are often overlooked, but because of what it has to say about who those blitzed Londoners, so central to British memory of the war, actually were.

In imagining the story of that small boy in the photo, McQueen helps us to re-imagine not just the blitz, but wartime Britain more widely. His sprawling, dramatic film reminds us that this is a shared history, one with meaning for many more people today than we might usually remember. ____________________________________

Aside what ever current year stuff they shoehorn in this seems like a good concept for a film.

And as for the answer to the question of "why" I'll say it's because it's the film the filmmaker wanted to make if you don't want to watch it then don't if you'd like a different story told then tell it yourself. _____________________

Here's some more about Contributions by Black Britons during the Blitz, because apparently some people didn't think they existed or contributed, or aren't worth mentioning or something.

For Black History Month historian Stephen Bourne tells us about some of the Black people involved in the fire service in the 1930s and 40s.

And I'll end with, the Steve McQueen making this movie is a totally different one than the one that died in 1980, in case there was any questions about that.

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SOW Minerals wellness pop-up

The SOW Minerals launch popup in Great Titchfield Street 🧘‍♀️

A wellness day of yoga classes, free goodies, Q&As and discussions about the new brand that sells vitamins and supplements.

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I think it's been building, too! When he's reflecting on how he became invisible, I think he dwells for the first time on the various things he'd done. Even though there's a pretty big time gap, he was focused on escaping the city and then preoccupied with his research. I don't think he ever really took the time to think about it. But he feels belated guilt and even fear at the consequences of his rages, when he's no longer actively angry. For example, this:

“It’s very probably been killed,” said the Invisible Man. “It was alive four days after, I know, and down a grating in Great Titchfield Street; because I saw a crowd round the place, trying to see whence the miaowing came.” He was silent for the best part of a minute. Then he resumed abruptly:

or this:

“And you troubled no more about the hunchback?” said Kemp. “No,” said the Invisible Man. “Nor have I heard what became of him. I suppose he untied himself or kicked himself out. The knots were pretty tight.” He became silent and went to the window and stared out.

Griffin got all quiet and looked out the window when he talked about his robbing his father and the man killing himself afterwards - then "abruptly" resumed his story. He obviously feels guilty about that, despite claiming that he didn't feel sorry about it at all. And it's the same with both of these instances. When he actually lingers on the thought he feels worried about the fate of the cat and of the man. He didn't mean to harm either of them. There are a couple other instances as well where he dismisses something like 'oh, he'll be fine' and I'm sure at least a part of it is to reassure himself. He lashes out when he's angry but he doesn't actually want to harm people really. And when he realizes the consequences (or potential ones) he might bluster that it's fine but then he gets very quiet and thoughtful and still.

And I love that contrast to his reaction when he knows for a fact that he has just killed someone. He breaks down loudly and lengthily. It depends on how badly beaten Mr. Wicksteed was, of course, but I think it quite likely that Griffin might have had some of the man's blood on him. The repeated emphasis of both the murdered man and the iron rod being bloody make this seem more likely - a few spatters, at least. Some of his own, too, is very possible. But only Wicksteed's blood would have shown. And Griffin, entirely invisible of himself, might have seen the literal blood on his hands, as the only way of seeing his hands. And that is so symbolically rich, I love it.

What a powerful image too! It would make such excellent art, of him staring at his bloody hands in such utter distress, only visible by the spatters of blood across his body and maybe the places where dirt from the path is on him. He's already left in a panic, flinging the iron rod into the nettles and fleeing as quickly as whatever injuries he may have suffered leave him able to do. But when he stops moving for the first time afterwards, he sees it. And at first he just stares silently, for a long time. Then he begins trying frantically to wipe the blood off of himself. Perhaps it just smears, at first, he has to try and find some water or plants to scrub it away. He starts muttering to himself, he's shaking as he tries to clean up and he can see that he is because he can see the blood, he's sobbing, he's laughing. He gets up and just keeps moving, aimless and completely broken and what he's done, what he's become. At the Invisible Man's Reign of Terror.

The abandonment of the rod by Griffin, suggests that in the emotional excitement of the affair, the purpose for which he took it—if he had a purpose—was abandoned. He was certainly an intensely egotistical and unfeeling man, but the sight of his victim, his first victim, bloody and pitiful at his feet, may have released some long pent fountain of remorse which for a time may have flooded whatever scheme of action he had contrived.

After the murder of Mr. Wicksteed, he would seem to have struck across the country towards the downland. There is a story of a voice heard about sunset by a couple of men in a field near Fern Bottom. It was wailing and laughing, sobbing and groaning, and ever and again it shouted.

RATTLES THE BARS OF MY CAGE

THIS IS WHY THIS BOOK ATE MY BRAIN and why I’ve latched onto the dreadful gremlin scientist who now has actual blood on his hands

There’s a lot of villain origin stories of a beleaguered person put under increasing pressure until they snap and commit some horrible deed, and it is like taking the cap off of their evilness that was there the whole time. Or in more nuanced stories, you have things like Frankenstein’s Creature strangling a child to death without fully intending to, but then embracing that feeling of violence and immediately framing a woman to be hanged for the crime.

Griffin responds by throwing away his only defense and spending hours wailing and sobbing alone.

He talked such a big game about the Terror he’ll inflict, how since the only thing he’s good at is killing people, then killing he must do. But when it comes down to it the first time he actually takes a life—in what was most likely self-defense while being badly beaten—it breaks him. The repetition of “his victim, his first victim,” reminds us that the image of this cold and calculating serial killer is a fabrication of both the people and Griffin’s own mind, and a revelation that he didn’t want to kill, only to survive.

(Oddly enough, the first life he actually takes doesn’t result in any escalation, because the hunt is already as extreme as they can make it. His life is already forfeit in advance, the crime a self-fulfilling prophecy.)

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Kibele Restaurant & Bar: A Turkish Gem in Fitzrovia, London

Kibele Restaurant & Bar: A Turkish Gem in Fitzrovia, London

Looking for an exciting dining experience in London? Look no further than Kibele Restaurant & Bar in Fitzrovia. This vibrant Turkish restaurant serves up authentic cuisine in a lively atmosphere, complete with cabaret shows and a menu of expertly crafted cocktails. Located on Great Titchfield Street, Kibele is a popular destination for locals and tourists alike. The restaurant’s traditional…

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Youngsters pose for the camera on a wall adjoining a wartime bomb site in 1965. This is Great Titchfield Street, and even by this time London was still being rebuilt following the war, with the very modern looking Post Office Tower pointing to the future ...

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Great Titchfield Street

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08/08/2021-Green and Wood Sandpiper and more along the Titchfield Canal path and a look at Hill Head

We made a visit to another place we have known for years and was influential in our early birdwatching today with a walk along the Titchfield canal path by Titchfield Haven national nature reserve the first one we ever visited when we began birdwatching in 2007. We had come to see some bird species reported on the Bridge Street flood by the Bridge Street car park at the Titchfield end of the path where we parked. I took the first, second, fifth and sixth pictures in this photoset here looking lovely on a great afternoon. Walking along to begin with it was great to see some butterflies on a mostly sunny afternoon and I managed to as I’d hoped do my final Big Butterfly Count survey of 2021 with it ending today. I saw one Red Admiral, winning the first one for me this year and possibly ever three Speckled Wood, one Small White one of the stars of my counts this year, two Gatekeepers another star and a Peacock. I have had such immense fun counting butterflies for the last three weeks. It’s one of the Big Butterfly counts I most anticipated this year knowing what it was like last year working from home just how many I could do on Lakeside lunch time walks and I did so many here again I didn’t miss many days when doing counts over the time. I just loved getting lost in meadows and other habitats looking for butterflies and counting them and pitting these glorious species against each other and seeing which one could come out on top. I found it truly engaging and captivating and a fantastic activity to throw myself into during these crucial stages in my butterfly year and key time for wildlife generally. It’s such a positively addictive activity and I have felt so lucky in one of my most extraordinary years of butterflies to see so many of these smashing species very locally, elsewhere in Hampshire and even once in Dorset. I hope my previous post earlier this evening explains how this has been a Big Butterfly Count like no other for me.

I saw a nice array of flowers this afternoon too including bindweed which I took the third picture in this photoset of teasel as shown in the fourth picture in this photoset, comfrey which was a lovely one to see which I took the seventh picture in this photoset of, nettles including one in the eighth picture I took today in this photoset, ragwort and dock carpeting the landscape in yellow and red nicely, hawksbeard/catsear type ones, mallow, great willowherb and the smashing riverine species the purple loosestrife glowing especially nicely in the sun.

With others we watched the flood and I was delighted to get quick sightings of one flying and then some more prolonged views in the telescope of one of the key targets today Green Sandpipers. We fell short of the Garganeys that had been around but did get a quick view of a Wood Sandpiper as well I was pleased to see it as my second of the year after one on a fantastic Sunday in May at Farlington Marshes with my first White-fronted Goose, Whimbrel and Painted Lady of 2021 and more seen that day. Two smart and beautiful birds to see. Later on around this area I got a smashing and intimate view of a neat Whitethroat on the fence line, saw some Stock Doves flying and then picked out a pair of this sweet pigeon in a slightly distant field and saw some bronze plumage Black-tailed Godwits on the flood. It was interesting to see farm animals goat and ponies which always make a nice sight here in the and around the flood too I hadn’t seen them in the water before. 

Green Sandpiper is a year tick today, one I will often hunt a sighting of at this time of year. As a sighting of one did last year at Alresford Pond it ensured I got a year tick in August to mean I’ve still not gone a whole month without a bird year tick since November 2015. This made me happy as I last year it came a whole month after my year tick prior which funnily enough was a Common Sandpiper, and today’s came not far off a month after my last year think the Turtle Dove at Knepp on 10th July. When I get a year tick in August it can start a surge of seeing a few more as we head towards autumn with things getting busier for birds. I always enjoy seeing the Green Sandpiper so it was great to get it seen this year on a top weekend of sandpipers for me with the Wood Sandpiper and the Common Sandpiper at Blashford Lakes yesterday.

As the sun truly came out we called into Hill Head on the way back on the way and there as we had done on the walk taking in very pleasant sun kissed views I got the ninth picture in this photoset looking into Titchfield Haven. I liked seeing two young or female Moorhens in a piece of water that the road crosses on the way. At Hill Head I added to the nostalgia seeing Turnstone and Oystercatcher both among the first birds we ever saw in the beginning of our birdwatching days here on early visits and on the shore where they were foraging an Oystercatcher walked past a Turnstone and it was interesting to see it dwarf it. A group of shiny white Ringed Plovers and Common Terns flying made a nice sight at this beautiful spot too before we took off back home into a stunning evening in the sun with great views crossing a top spot looking down the River Hamble along the motorway which I always like taking in after spending the time today by the River Meon. Tonight I took in the pretty flowers out the back in the sunshine before getting in with hebe, dahlia and others looking great and a little sunflower which I took the tenth and final picture in this photoset of the first in flower this year in the garden with a couple grown high and developing too which was nice with the yarrow which I also photographed and tweeted on Dans_Pictures tonight and other plants growing outside the fence looking nice too. A brilliant wild weekend of relaxation and nostalgia. I hope you all had a good weekend.

Wildlife Sightings Summary: My first Green Sandpiper of the year, one of my favourite birds the Little Egret, one of my favourite butterflies the Red Admiral, one of my favourite dragonflies the Emperor, Wood Sandpiper, Turnstone, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Tern, Herring Gull, Black-headed Gull, Mallard, there were a couple of other ducks we saw which we were under the impression was Teal when out there which would be an interesting one as they are typically winter birds but on getting home we found the Garganey there are eclipsed drake so we may well have seen them and mistook them for the Teals or Mallards but I felt there’s no way we’ll know now and with no pictures taken on the birds I just could never be sure if they were the Garganey but you never know, Coot, Moorhen, Canada Goose, Cormorant well, lots of House Martins nicely over Bridge Street and Posbrook floods, Whitethroat, nice Goldinches, Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Speckled Wood, Small White, Peacock, Gatekeeper, hoverfly and ant.

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Housing, Improved: Great Britain, England. Liverpool. Housing Conditions and Improvements: Municipal Housing: Great Britain: Dwellings Built by theCity of Liverpool to Replace Insanitary Hornby Street Tenements...: Titchfield Street - 3-room tenements, Unidentified Artist, c. 1903, Harvard Art Museums: Photographs

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Social Museum Collection Size: image: 10.5 x 15 cm (4 1/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/17197

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'Stage 2 Designs' on Oxford Street and a progress update to be revealed as Mortimer Street works get underway

Work has started to change Mortimer Street to two-way traffic. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Westminster Council is to unveil more detailed designs for Oxford Street as work gets underway on Mortimer Street between Regent Street and Great Titchfield Street. Construction started on 4 March to create two-way traffic movement along Mortimer Street, and will shortly commence to reverse one-way traffic on…

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1831 Sunday 9 October

7 40/.. 10 1/2

Incurred a cross last night and another this morning thinking of π [Mariana] lay three quarters hour this morning about -

Very fine morning - Fahrenheit 63°. now at 7 50/.. - down at 8 1/2 - breakfast - out at 9 1/2 for an hour - walked along the town and the marine parade - the marine hotel evidently the one to go to and not very far from the quay - go by daylight, and then easy to get comfortably settled - some very nice little gothic places far better than cottages along the marine parade - 1 or 2 gable-ended houses with gothic 2 stories of windows 4 lights each - 2 projecting in front and one on each side   

[Anne’s drawing of the gothic windows]

- that might do very well for the gable ends at Shibden then walked thro' the town to where we landed last night from East Cowes - the Medina (medeena) or Newport river, the wooded hills and towns creeping along the margin of each, very pretty - Cowes too, is the yatch station - I should prefer it to Ryde?

On going back to the Inn, the driver came to be paid - he asked 6/. a day - had Mr. Webb, the master of the house up - he said a man should have 5/6 a day for that their masters paid them nothing but a boy like that (like the one who drove me) should have 4/. so gave him after that rate -

Off in the Malmesbury Steamer from Cowes at 10 3/4 - very pretty look back upon the town (West Cowes) see little of East Cowes and hardly any of the river - leave it hid behind West Cowes - just get a peep of the top of East Cowes (Mr. Nash) he there because the flag flying, and of the top, soon after, of Norris Castle where the duchess of Kent's flag was flying - At 11 1/4 pass the little thick low round Calshot Castle (like Hurst Castle) and enter the Southampton river - the little thin tall Castle Tower we saw before was Eaglehurst - small boat from the Thames landed at 12 5/.. -

Back at the Crown Inn (very civil people but very b.g. 2nd. rate, tavern-kind of house) - at 12 10/.. - carriage packed - read this morning's globe, every column in mourning for the throwing out of the reform bill by a majority of 41 lords - all the bps. [bishops] against but Norwich and Chichester - Lord Wynford spoke much and well against the bill -

Off from Southampton commonly here shortened to Southton at 1 3/4 - fine looking town - in 7 or 8 mins. [minutes] at Northam bridge 1st. and 2nd (a handsome wooden 5 arch-bridge and then at a very short distance a bridge (wood?) of one arch) both over the lake-like river Itchen which is here very beautifully skirted with wood and gentlemens seats, and altogether a beautiful scene with shipping and Southampton to the left behind us -

At 2 10/.. on Netley common, a heathery moor, bounded (right) by fine wood thro' which beautiful peeps of the Southampton river - poor land in all directions about Southampton, even along the beautiful banks of its river - land here almost as poor (but not so white sandy) as from Poole to Swanage - all the land along the coast from Southampton to Weymouth poor even if no farther, which I have not seen - at 2 1/2 fine view of Calshot castle and across the channel - Cowes and just see Ryde - and then in a minute or 2 get into enclosed land again - at 2 38/.. Bursledon bridge (wood) over wide lake that goes to Botley 2 miles left and to the Southampton river right - very picturesque good village scattered round its margin, chiefly whitish straw-thatched ivy-covered houses -

At 2 50/.. Titchfield common and from here and afterwards fine views of the Isle of Wight - could distinguish the watch tower on St. Catherine's hill - at 3 1/4 pass thro' one end of Titchfield apparently neat little town - Fareham at 3 42/.. one long neat, good street - change horses at Harris's far end of the town, having passed the better looking Inn, a large white hart - just below the Inn cross bridge over lake-like water with neat houses round its edge and wood and vessels - very pretty as at Bursledon - then rise little hill and fine view of the water and shipping and of Gosport or Portsmouth or both -

At 4 turned down the pretty little neat village of Porchester to the castle and there at 4 5/.. - walked about in the castle yard and could find nobody till I went out and got a man to take me to the concierge of the castle who was busy shewing about some people - the parish church is in the castle yard - the Saxon arch of the great west door is strikingly beautiful - the north side of the church and roof too very much covered over with ivy - went to the top of the great Keep Tower 103 feet high and 7 stories - in this and the smaller square Tower 8000 French prisoners were lodged during the last war over whom 300 soldiers mounted guard every day - the part where queen Elizabeth lived quite ruined - the great square Keep Tower said to be Roman Saxon and norman architecture - not easy to me to distinguish the 3 periods - Low water on the sea would have washed the south wall of the Porchester castle court - just out of the village of Porchester, the road lies along the low narrow gravelly beach a large surface beyond it being all green as the water makes it and close, left, is Portsea down (or Portsdown?) -

The Keep Tower at Portchester Castle [Image Source]

At 5 1/2 turn left thro' the neat good little village of Cosham down to Portsmouth - do not see any stayable Inn in Cosham - enter Portsmouth at 6 5/.. under two deep arched gateways, a regularly fortified (double walled with boulevard and trees innermost) town, the only one I ever saw in England; nor was I even that such an one existed -

Alighted at the George hotel at 6 10/.. - at last a good first rate Inn again - what a comfort - handsome 3 windowed sitting room, so ordered a dinner soup-potatos and broccoli, and boiled bread pudding and 2 bottles soda water - all good - dinner from 7 25/.. to 8 - before and after wrote out the whole of this of today, and inked over and settled accounts till now 9 10/.. -

Found letter this morning at the Crown Southampton post office date 7th. instant 2 1/2 satisfactory pp. [pages] from Miss H- [Hobart] Richmond park - both she and Lady S- [Stuart] were 'Terribly annoyed at what we thought the overthrow or throw over'....all quite comfortable again - Miss H- [Hobart] thinking it a great triumph that her wishes should be stronger than Lady S- de R-'s [Stuart de Rothesay's] arguments - says Lady Alicia (Gordon) will not stay more than 3 nights and if I wait till the 13th. may be sure of my bed again at the Lodge - very fine day - Fahrenheit 64°. now at 9 1/4 p.m.

[Margin] Saw Chichester cathedral from Porchester castle

[Margin notes] x L  

Reference: SH:7/ML/E/14/0131 - SH:7/ML/E/14/0132

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Great Titchfield Street, W1

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