tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post5756656774922540332..comments2024-03-23T12:38:46.260+00:00Comments on The History Girls: Fire! Fire! by Imogen RobertsonMary Hoffmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06241989732624913706noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-89704576449936708952016-08-24T03:32:02.603+01:002016-08-24T03:32:02.603+01:00Fire! Fire! Only 2 realms after our demise, dear, ...Fire! Fire! Only 2 realms after our demise, dear, and 1 of em aint too cool.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09161116712679365281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-12952614907931649532016-08-23T11:18:38.828+01:002016-08-23T11:18:38.828+01:00Must go there! Thanks.Must go there! Thanks.Leslie Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15105465949970430998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-72251504094792646402016-08-21T22:52:31.847+01:002016-08-21T22:52:31.847+01:00Lovely there are so many MOL fans. It's well w...Lovely there are so many MOL fans. It's well worth a visit, Sue! The bookshop is fatal... Andrew is such a great writer, and always an excellent speaker too.Imogenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08925800621947616280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-90077377459309606842016-08-21T17:36:18.122+01:002016-08-21T17:36:18.122+01:00The Museum of London is one of my favourites, and ...The Museum of London is one of my favourites, and my last visit was to see the Cheapside Hoard - which perhaps was hidden because of the Fire's approach. Absolutely fantastic, highly recommended - standouts are the Roman girl in the shell coffin, and the WW2 house. Plus the bookshop is amazing, the cafe's great, and entry is free! I've written several books set partly in London, and it's a great resource for writers - I particularly like the reconstructed rooms from various periods.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08529998865725742685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-92049891654029433172016-08-21T17:11:56.314+01:002016-08-21T17:11:56.314+01:00I loved Andrew Taylor's THE ASHES OF LONDON an...I loved Andrew Taylor's THE ASHES OF LONDON and am tempted to come to this. Also to see the exhibition. Thanks Imogen.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428693013132917947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-25535431273067335352016-08-21T16:16:15.776+01:002016-08-21T16:16:15.776+01:00Someone else has just recommended the MOL to me - ...Someone else has just recommended the MOL to me - must go next time I visit London. My first visit was with a junior school trip. We were all astonished by the sight of men in bowler hats, and thought it was hilarious when we went into a shop and asked for 'suckers' (ice lollies) and no-one knew what we were talking about. Very strangely I have no memory at all of what we saw - though I can recall a trip to York the year before that very vividly.Sue Purkisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09084528571944803477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-29518349112195373592016-08-21T10:41:21.782+01:002016-08-21T10:41:21.782+01:00Lovely to hear other first memories of London!
Lovely to hear other first memories of London! <br />Imogenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08925800621947616280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-74989622471364177902016-08-21T06:09:20.833+01:002016-08-21T06:09:20.833+01:00Wonderful! I'm off to the MoL immediately! It&...Wonderful! I'm off to the MoL immediately! It's such a great resource in London. <br /><br />Not my first, but one of my strongest early memories of London aged 19, looking up the trendy Kings Road in Chelsea with little fluffy clouds up high and little bitty miniskirts down lower. I thought How wonderful it would be to live here... And now I do! <br /><br />P.S. Lovely post! Caroline Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07249424644829463560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5502671101756463249.post-43043147777744875212016-08-21T02:52:53.490+01:002016-08-21T02:52:53.490+01:00Sounds like a wonderful exhibition and I will cert...Sounds like a wonderful exhibition and I will certainly come to hear you if someone invents a working teleport in time... ;) I would be interested to think how things would be handled in a modern major fire - probably lots of conspiracy theories would surround it. I don't think it would be that major, though, unless there was an earthquake to help spread the flames.<br /><br />I remember my first visit to London. I sent to the Tower, the Changing of the Guard(which turned out to be a full-scale parade, not just a small group of men swapping places as I'd assumed), enjoyed my very first chestnuts and visited the British Museum, the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. I remember the amusement of one of the guards at the NG when he saw how excited I was to turn around and suddenly see Constable's The Hay Wain, which I'd only seen in my school art textbook... And then the Sutton Hoo treasure and Egyptian and Babylonian rooms at the BM... <br /><br />My second visit, I went to see a Royal Shakespeare production at the Barbican. I had lunch at the rooftop cafe and a lovely London native sharing my table pointed out the church where Oliver Cromwell got married. It's nice to be a tourist and see things through fresh eyes.Sue Bursztynskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09362273418897882971noreply@blogger.com