Re[2]: Semi-OT Mainly for the UK PDMLers

2002-05-01 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, Running parallel to Portland Place is Great Portland Street. The office where I do my slaving is off Gt. Portland St. and there is a hotel there called "The Fitzrovia" which I suppose could be a candidate for the former Portland Hotel. There are a great many hospitals in that area, on Gt. Po

Re[2]: Semi-OT Mainly for the UK PDMLers

2002-05-02 Thread Bob Walkden
Hi, I can probably get off on a technicality, Mike. I don't think Greenwich was in London in those days. I remember t'days when all this were fields... I've found several references to literary types who sent letters in the 1920s on notepaper from the Portland Hotel, London, W. But none of them

Re: Re[2]: Semi-OT Mainly for the UK PDMLers

2002-05-01 Thread Lasse Karlsson
Bob W. wrote: > Hi Lasse, > I'd be happy to try and get a few shots of St. James's Palace this > weekend for you, weather permitting, if you'd like. Only the outside, > of course. Some bloke lives there and he has men with rifles & big furry > hats standing outside to keep riff-raff like me away.