Comments on: Skilton’s London Life

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:42:28 +0000

The photo of the tugboats and docks is an absolute show stopper. No wonder they say

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”.

What a grand history you have — and how fortunate we are that you share it with us every day.

Onward and upward.

By: ANDY STROWMAN

ANDY STROWMAN — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:39:07 +0000

My favourite is the escapologist .
This I saw opposite the Tower of London with my Mum .
I had never seen a man with so many tattoos on his face and forehead and he was the one to escape .
I pleaded with my Mum to come back there again but she said once was enough .

In later life I met a man who saw a man come to where he lived in London and the market place .
There, through the rapture of his charisma he drew a crowd and then took out of his bag a rat .
He put the rat between two slices of bread and bit his head off .

I am reminded of this story by reading a book by Chris Searle about Isaac Rosenberg who wrote a poem about rats on the trenches in World War One .

In pity I write this for rats alone have had a bad press having been the carriers of bubonic plague and they themselves carried the fly that started it .

By: Frances Christine Bevan

Frances Christine Bevan — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:15:08 +0000

I remember Sunday afternoon walks along the embankment with my parents in the 50s and looking at the pavement artists. I’d love to know if another generation of artists are there now.