https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/19/in-old-holborn/img_9044-2/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:10:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2014/09/19/in-old-holborn/img_9044-2/#comment-1219339 Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:10:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/IMG_9044.jpg#comment-1219339 My dad served with the 1st. Battalion (London Regiment) Royal Fusiliers during the Great War. Celebrated his eighteenth birthday two weeks after the armistice. Always think of him when I drive past. Lest we forget.

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