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• Christmas Telly Past — a review over the years

  23-12-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Christmas Day being the one day of the year where it is almost impossible to do anything other than veg in front of the telly, other than taking photos of empty city centres that is.
  However, with a massive, and generally captive audience, what do the television bosses offer us. I seemed to recall a time when xmas day telly was dominated by a major movie in the afternoon, then it was killed off by Noel Edmunds schmaltzy do-gooding shows. So I pondered what was telly really like. Am I remembering
  
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• Have you ever seen the Mercers’ Maidens around London

  23-12-2018 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve ever seen them, you might think they’re just old decoration, but many buildings in London are adorned with the bust of an anonymous woman. They appear on old buildings, and very modern ones, they are all over London, but cluster in a few places. They can be found on homes, offices, warehouses.These are the Mercers’ Maidens and they are an often overlooked “hidden in plain sight” aspect of the City of London’s history.
  Quite who the Mercer Maiden is,
  
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