Mick's Monopoly challenge

  November updates     Following a lengthy blogbreak when I was under orders to keep mobile whilst running in my new hip I'm back on the keyboard with lots to report on.  Fenchurch Street  updated with Horizon 22, London's newest (and highest) free vantage point plus a statue honouring Julius Reuter.       The HMV's flagship store in Oxford Street is to re-open on November 24.      I have just revisited Westminster Abbey and also the recently refurbished National Portrait Gallery. Reports will appear here shortly.    Ho w many London Underground stations can you name? Play the game at https://metro-memory.com or click  here.           Be warned, it's addictive and frustrating (but easy to cheat).          I'm up to 86%. But then I have lived and worked in the capital for most of my life.          Transport networks of other cities including Par...

Highgate Cemetery  review is done.    Added to  Strand ...         10 Adam Street (6a)                                       Henry Nicholls/Reuters      Added to  Electric Company  ......     Saturday, June 18     If you extrapolate The Mall eastwards the line goes through Wanstead, handy on days when there is a flypast, and the weather is warm enough to fire up the BBQ ....

HIGHGATE CEMETERY            Highgate Cemetery is best known as the last resting place of Karl Marx; and his grave is certainly imposing. But there's much, much, more to see.  There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East Cemeteries.  It's a cemetery when there's no church, otherwise a graveyard.       I've divided the graves into categories which will be familiar to Trivial Pursuit enthusiasts. History                Elizabeth Jackson (1801-1839)   Karl Marx (1818-1883)        The resplendent Karl Marx grave was funded by the Marx Memorial Fund, set up by the Communist Party in 1955. His original headstone (right) can still be seen nearby.      The political philosophies of Karl Marx were certainly significant and generally speaking admirable. But in practice they don’t appear to work too well in com...