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August 25, 2005
Secrets of Bloomsbury
r/n 2276
Euston Road
Mabledon Place
Cartwright Gardens
Burton Place
Burton Street Is this the most gorgeous bookshop in London? Marchmont Books is a survivor dating back at least to the 70s; what was once a thriving area of independent booksellers is now dwindling, but we can only hope that this hidden beauty, signless, overhung by wisteria, musty, slightly disarrayed, with a highly varied stock capable of surprising, and an extensive poetry section (a rare thing indeed: there is more poetry in here than you'd find in the hugest branch of Borders) will endure unchanged.
Dukes Road
Woburn Walk Sorrento Snack Bar, with its tiling and wooden benches
Upper Woburn Place
Tavistock Square
Endsleigh Place
Gordon Square
Institute of Education
Russell Square The Knowledge: These Cabbies Cafes are one of the great mysteries of London: one can't help seeing them as the intriguing, secret temples of the Cafe world - culturally lagooned but kept alive by the loyalty of the trade, one suspects them of preserving within their wooden walls unchanged ancient esoteric secrets of teamaking long lost to the rest of the city. Who owns them? Are non-cabbies allowed in?
Montague Street
Great Russell Street
Museum Street
Drury Lane
Great Queen Street Freemasons' Hall
Wild Street
Wild Court
Kingsway
Aldwych
Strand A wry piece of installation art by a corner-shop fruiterer driven mad by European-Union fruit legislation?
Lancaster Place
Waterloo Bridge
NFT
Charlie Chaplin Walk
Stamford Street
Coin Street
Aquinas Street
Duchy Street
Great Stamford Street
Hatfields
The Cut
Announcement
From the end of September, in addition to the superb thursday night readings, the Calder Bookshop together with the Godot Company will be presenting short works of Beckett on stage in the intimate setting of the backroom of the bookshop, friday and saturday nights at 7pm. Highly Recommended - more details to come.
Posted by robin at August 25, 2005 05:20 AM