tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13590376255301298352011-04-21T13:40:27.553-07:00Dr B. Savagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01690776634736420535noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1359037625530129835.post-53850138243304653232007-10-21T13:25:00.000-07:002007-10-23T01:38:09.090-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/1686280257_081989e3ab.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2008/1686280257_081989e3ab.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The staff entrance at the Savoy Hotel was once the doorway to William Blake's home, and dying-place. It's down an alley that was once Fountain Court off the Strand. Not the Fountain Court that you'll find on the A-Z, no matter what the security guard there says. London moves to protect its own.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/1687133878_54bd9572a6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/1687133878_54bd9572a6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Prohibition tactics. Aimed at the homeless or the commuters?<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/1686278513_e1139e31b7.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/1686278513_e1139e31b7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Epstein sculptures, Charing Cross. Puritans would clamber up ladders to smash off the genitalia with hammers.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/1687130956_efb47e5492.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2025/1687130956_efb47e5492.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Irving Street, off Leicester Square. Once Green Street, off Leicester Fields. And the marriage home of the Blakes.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/1687115486_4d217dd40b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/1687115486_4d217dd40b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Mayfair, Hanover Square. Blake's enemies are the Establishment. George III said 'take him avay'<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/1686277387_900332e669.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/1686277387_900332e669.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Prof Fox - have you been reverse prohibitioning again?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/1686275363_12b8af1400.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/1686275363_12b8af1400.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Hazlitt's slab in St Anne's. He said of Blake's poems: 'they are beautiful, only too deep for the vulgar'<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2214/1687127562_c7a5cf1938.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2214/1687127562_c7a5cf1938.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The Intrepid Fox, home of Soho revolutionaries back in the day..<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/1687126970_f0528a9aea.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/1687126970_f0528a9aea.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Flaxman, Blake's contemporary. Infinitely more popular back then, apart from this court which bears his name, who remembers him now?<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/1687126040_d7093d52ac.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2137/1687126040_d7093d52ac.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />28 Poland Street. Blake moved he when he was 28. He was born on the 28th. Here his brother Robert died of TB. But Blake visioned him as an angel teaching him his new technique of relief etching. <br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/1687125394_8f84353efd.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/1687125394_8f84353efd.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />King's Arms - Druids<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2148/1687124844_c24bdc173d.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2148/1687124844_c24bdc173d.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Shelley - Poland Street<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/1687124256_cd01ad1c2e.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/1687124256_cd01ad1c2e.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Red brick where the water-pump was, outside the watering-hole now named after John Snow<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2017/1687123608_ea67624147.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2017/1687123608_ea67624147.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Opposite Blake's birthplace<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2173/1687122942_cefb3f99f0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2173/1687122942_cefb3f99f0.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Basement of William Blake house, triptych of Blake and an illuminated copy of the works that you can read<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/1686269619_b8743157b8.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/1686269619_b8743157b8.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />They tore down the house and put up this sign. Someone stole the O.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/1687121620_4986ccfc47.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2113/1687121620_4986ccfc47.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />William Blake House<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/1687121156_cc10552f06.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/1687121156_cc10552f06.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Soho Mural on corner of Broadwick and Carnaby Streets<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/1687119728_174e2a8586.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/1687119728_174e2a8586.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Soho alumni<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/1686266381_2e8a349d7a.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/1686266381_2e8a349d7a.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />George II in Golden Square. The child William Blake would have played here. Perhaps that should be commemorated on one of the empty plinths.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/1686260827_1379b7a514.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2243/1686260827_1379b7a514.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Hendrix next door to Handel<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/1686259759_a8f712bdc1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2357/1686259759_a8f712bdc1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Reed Employment ~ Blake's house ~ South Molton Street<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2028/1686265123_6e4e0cf64b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2028/1686265123_6e4e0cf64b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Swallow Street<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1686261377_3bd28dd57e.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2334/1686261377_3bd28dd57e.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Science Commerce Art<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2262/1686267775_d27c0d699b.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2262/1686267775_d27c0d699b.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Televisionary and Visionary (and a rabbit on dogback)<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/1687117394_9b2e9b5ab9.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2238/1687117394_9b2e9b5ab9.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Sheridan<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/1686264033_817a4ee891.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2192/1686264033_817a4ee891.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />A city in transformation<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2339/1686262309_fd108e4085.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2339/1686262309_fd108e4085.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Pitt the Behomeoth<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/1687118408_3f6d0f216e.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/1687118408_3f6d0f216e.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The baptism font of Blake in St James' Church, Piccadilly.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2139/1687116158_65f2b787c3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2139/1687116158_65f2b787c3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />The Artists Rifles - inspired the SAS, apparently<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/1686260265_92ab538452.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2098/1686260265_92ab538452.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Haunch of Venison Yard<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1359037625530129835-5385013824330465323?l=blakeinsoho.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Dr B. 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