victor keegan
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Ex-Guardian journo. NEW book “Thorney, London’s Lost Island” https://t.co/D2E6Fh9cmk
London (Victoria)
Joined February 2008
I worked for years in the former building (behind) for the Guardian but had no idea there was a horse trough opposite. Moral? Horse troughs last far longer than modern buildings.
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The newly restored Gilbert Scott building makes a fascinating contrast with Westminster Abbey (and Big Ben)
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Interesting coffee art at the new Café Fresco in Greycoat Place Victoria. Can anyone top this?
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Louise, Gates of Life is lovely - one of your very best- with fond memories of earlier collaboration. vic (Louise Quinn) https://t.co/5crqSiIWIp
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Scottish Chanteuse, Louise Quinn/Gates Of Light is back with a brand new video directed by Grant Mcphee, he is one of Scotland’s foremost film directors and
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Great to see that the Raspberry Pi is still selling well. Here’s my abstract/poem from 10 years ago
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Poem LET us praise thee, Raspberry Pi You're the true Apple of our eye A computer made for you and me Whose innards we can actually see Allowing kids to write their code In a backroom of their own...
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Do you know there was an Opera house by Westminster station that was built and demolished or that Shakespeare acted in a pioneering theatre in the Elephant and Castle? Am flattered that the first Vic Keegan’s Lost London is selling well after nine years
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A poem not read Is not dead Just sleeping unencoded Like a bomb unexploded
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Today’s Observer column Dec 21
observer.co.uk
The rise in UK youth unemployment reflects the lingering effects of Brexit and the necessity of rejoining the EU
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Huge thanks to Matt Brown and the Londonist for giving a warm welcome to my new book London’s Forgotten Island https://t.co/6paI8ttQXT
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Mobile phones give entertainment plenty So why do they leave our lives so empty
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From upstairs in the cellarium of Westminster Abbey the venues of two original Parliaments - the narrow wall mid-picture was the monks’ refectory and the building on the right is part of the Chapter House.
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Lost for a present for a fellow Londoner? Try Vic Keegan’s Lost London https://t.co/isJsGgCGV0 Still selling well
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My brother Victor has just published the last of his “LostLondon” books about Thorney, a forgotten island in central London, formed by the Thames and the subterranean Tyburn, host to the densest concentration of ‘history’ anywhere. https://t.co/oo3IOSuXPd
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Unknown until now - the world’s first skyscraper was in Petty France, Westminster
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Forget Black Friday - these two well received books of mine about Lost London will make lasting Christmas presents https://t.co/aL6h7HKD1F
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An article in today’s Observer says there have been “at least 90,000 cyber attacks on the UK defence system over the last year” Who is doing this?
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