Category Archives: Metro Blogs

Introducing the View From the Mirror Archive- a new contents page

By View from the Mirror on February 23, 2019 | 5 Comments

To date, I’ve written and posted over 270 articles on this site.

Due to the nature of blogging software these posts get pushed further and further back as time progresses meaning it can be tricky to discover older content.

To overcome this problem I’ve developed a new contents page where links and brief descriptions of every single article can be found.

Please click here or on the link in the menu bar above to access…

Enjoy!

Artist, Francis Bacon drinking in The French House, Soho… see Disturbing Daubs: Francis Bacon’s London (image: The Guardian)

Jimi Hendrix posing on Montagu Place… see Jimi Hendrix’s London, Part 1

Entrance to Lower Robert Street… see a Ghostly Tunnel in the Heart of London

The Battersea Peace Pagoda

Bill Sikes… see Fear & Loathing in Shad Thames

Brydges Place… see Covent Garden’s Cramped Alley

Victorian depiction of the Waterloo & City Line… see Waterloo Station Part 3

Tube poster advertising ‘2001 a Space Odyssey’, 1968… see A Monolith in St Katharine Docks

Tunnel on Abbey Street…see Secrets of the Viaducts, Part 2

The Caning on Conduit Street… see Lord Camelford: Gentleman Thug, Part 1

Two mice eating cheese… see London’s smallest statue

The Tower of London in the 1600s… see The Gunpowder Plot

The Sweeney… Euston Films’ Greatest Hits

God’s Own Junkyard… see The Man Who Made Soho Glow

Quintessential London film, The Long Good Friday… see a Tribute to Bob Hoskins

George Washington’s statue… see Trafalgar Square’s American Patch

The Dublin Castle, Camden- see Euston Station, Part 1

David Bowie Mural, Brixton… see

Mural of Vincent Van Gogh, Stockwell… see Van Gogh’s London

Nelson’s Column… see Buffing Nelson’s Column

St Alban’s Tower

Ship’s figurehead… see Tobacco Dock: Wapping’s Ghostly Mall

An old London cab… see London Taxis in 1960

Basing Hill, north London… see Suburban SOS: An Early Aviation Disaster

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Metro Blog: A Cabbie’s Forbidden Fruit

By View from the Mirror on July 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

Late last night, I found myself stuck on the rank at Waterloo Station. Tearing my hair out and looking for a way to pass the time, I picked up a notepad and jotted down my latest guest-blog for ‘Metro’…

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