No. 1167: Clerkenwell Green, EC1
Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1. Photo ©RogerDean 2014
R.D.Blumenfeld’s Diary, October 3, 1890:
It is good to be in London again. I love to sit on the top of an omnibus watching the vista of black silk hats, like dark poppy fields. You can no more separate a Londoner from his top hat and his shiny black brief bag, which every self-respecting Briton carries to and from his office, than you can separate the Ethiopian from his skin.
[The whole of the entry from which this excerpt was taken can be found at www.victorianlondon.org. R.D.]
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