Does anyone know...?

For once a blog with no attendant photograph...!

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle right up to his middle
And never went there again.

The man in the moon came down too soon
And asked the way to Norwich.
He went to the south and burnt his mouth
By eating cold pease porridge

Does anyone know any other Nursery Rhymes which feature the name of a town?

new camera

This picture shows where we celebrated after I bought a new camera, as a result of pressure from the daughters, one of them thinking I was getting better and should have a better one (!?), and the other wanting my 'old' one so that she could start her blog - 'going gwada', q.v. @ blogspot.com.

Queen Vic at Holborn Viaduct

I have been doing some research into Victorian London and came across this delightful ' common man's take ' on the opening of the Holborn Viaduct in 1869. It had been a noble and very expensive project which had taken 6 years in the making, but was very appreciated by all and sundry. Holborn Circus - where the clock tower now stands - was separated from the Old Bailey (though it was actually the site of Newgate Prison originally) by the valley of the Fleet River. The river had been covered over in the eighteenth century, but the banks - Holborn Hill - formed notorious steep climbs which the coaches and horses of the time, and also pedestrians, found very difficult to negotiate. I hope you can and do enjoy reading it - it is at the maximum size I could put it at on the blog.




It was printed by H. Disley, Printer, 57, High Street, St Giles, London. The Source of the document is: Curiosities of Street Literature, London,Reeves and Turner, 196, Strand, 1871. The web site is noted for each verse.