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I set out on an expedition to explore the local

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The Hoxton Chronicle. 139 Shoreditch Park.

Shoreditch Park was created as part of the Abercrombie Plan for post-war reconstruction of London.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 138. 5.00 p.m., 01 August 2026.

It was approaching 5.00 p.m.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 137 Bazaar na Kole.

It did not look very promising.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 136 Zophia and Oskar Hansen.

Oskar Hansen, born 1922, died 2005.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 135 Death of a silver birch.

We knew it was coming.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 134 The Safety Handbook.

The sound of distant farm dogs barking, and the sweet songs of birds is all that disturbs the languid peace of the forest.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 133 The Evolution Garden.

A visit to the redesigned Natural History Museum gardens induced in me a powerful feeling of vertigo.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 132 The Pavilion.

Every year since the year 2000, the Serpentine art gallery in Kensington Gardens has commissioned and built a temporary pavilion on the lawn in front of the gallery.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 131 The Mayoress.

In September 1969, Mrs M.E.Howells was appointed Mayoress of Carmarthen.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 130 Bank.

In Bartholomew Lane, near the junction with Threadneedle Street, is a discreet entrance to a little-known London treasure: The Bank of England Museum, carefully inserted into a few interconnected rooms of the Bank.

The Hoxton Chronicle. 129 The Fox.

It was late at night on a fine evening, so I decided to walk home, climbing the hill to Upper Street and then descending from Islington into Hoxton.