Posts by Clare Brant
Catching up
Much has been happening with Strandlines! Except keeping up with the blog. I take it up now in part because I’m giving a talk about blogs next month, at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing; whoops, how embarrassing to have let Strandlines blog slip. In part too the blog has taken a back seat because…
Read MoreThe street of the definite article
The street of the definite article The strand. The one two the iambic chaos The rush through it, on it and under it The busy busy The buses the bridges the protests The lawyers the law courts the justice, The cafes, the authors The Dickens, the Thackery the Makepeace The temple inn The no children…
Read MoreWriting postcards
I was recently given some beautiful old Strand postcards to scan for the site. All of the postcards were blank. Instead of simply adding these postcards to the site as they were, I thought they might be used for a little life writing. In Strandlines sessions at the Age Concern Day Centre, Odhams Walk – also with…
Read MoreMore Strand Faces
‘Catching the Coal – A Strand Sketch’ from the Ex-Service Man, 1919
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives (Ref: Hamilton 11/1/5), 1 May 1919, article entitled ‘Catching the Coal – A Strand Sketch’ from The Ex-Service Man, conveying a conversation between a shoe shiner and his customer on the Strand.
Read MoreA Great Week for Sheila, 1948
Article titled ‘Tomorrow’s Graduate’ from issue of ‘The Illustrated’ women’s magazine King’s College London Archives (Ref: K/PBN/1/4), 26 June 1948, article titled ‘Tomorrow’s Graduate’ by I. Robertson which relates to women students at King’s College London and in particular, a day in the life of King’s College London student, Sheila Harris. Click on the image…
Read MoreSir Joseph Bazalgette
[missing video] Work is still going on, long after Bazalgette
Read MoreLower Fees for Degrees!
No Sleeping on the Strand
Petrolheads and airheads
The future has come to the Strand, in the form of a beautiful machine – the Bloodhound. Currently filling the front window of Coutts Bank with its pointy-nosed enquiry into what sort of world might make use of it, this gleaming blur of potential encapsulates an ambition: to reach a speed of 1,000 mph and…
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