Candid Capital: Phone Box Lineup
Phone Box Lineup
A row of iconic red telephone boxes in Covent Garden, January 2016
Time Out blog: Scottish London
As a Burns Night special, my latest blog for Time Out looks at a number of places in London with Scottish connections. Please click here to read more.
Piper on Westminster Bridge
Bring back the Lucozade sign
Several years ago, I wrote a piece about the famous ‘Lucozade’ sign which has welcomed motorists approaching London from the west with its vintage, sparkling display since the 1950s.
The Lucozade sign (image: The Mirror)
The sign, located at Brentford, can even be glimpsed in a 1975 episode of ‘The Sweeney’:
The Lucozade sign (to the left), 1975
But now, thanks to the brazen action of advertising giant JC Decaux, the sign has vanished; hastily removed over the Christmas period and replaced with yet another, generic digital board. An so, yet again, London has had another little piece of its uniqueness and character chiseled away.
What a sad way to start the year.
View from the Mirror 