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LETTERS TO THE EDITORDear SirThe Christine Keeler TV series jogged my memory to an hilariousincident at Grumbles long ago.

It was New Year's Eve at my restaurant Grumbles in Pimlico and itwas frantically busy. I ran downstairs to the bar and sitting on topof the bar was Christine Keeler waving her legs about. As I passedshe snapped me between her legs with squeals of laughter. Therewas I trapped between the most famous legs in England !

The funniest thing to me was at this point a man standing besidethe bar in suit and tie said "Do you mind,that happens to be myfiancee ".We all collapsed in laughter none more than Christine.

My impression of Christine was that she was great fun and farprettier than any of her photos. I think Sophie Cookson in the TVseries shows this side of her personality.Jeremy Friend

PIMLICO IS BEST KNOWNfor its garden squares — Eccleston, Warwick and St George’s —and the streets on the Pimlico grid, the roads running off StGeorge’s Drive. Most of the houses in the squares are divided intoflats, first-floor homes with access to the balconies above theentrance porches being the most desirable.

The last whole house sold in one of the squares made £8 millionthree years ago. The most expensive house now for sale is a six-bedroom, 4,700sq ft property in Belgrave Road, priced £4.75 million.

The most expensive flat is a three-bedroom lateral conversionacross two buildings in Warwick Square, for £4.5 million. One-bed-room flats in the grid range from £475,000 to £850,000. Price persquare foot in the grid is between £1,100 and £1,300 compared toaround £1,900 for something similar in Belgravia.

There are spacious red-brick Victorian mansion flats in the triangleformed by Vauxhall Bridge Road and Victoria Street, with a three-bedroom flat in Carlisle Mansions for sale at £2,995,000.

Among new developments in recent years, the former waste transfer site in Gatliff Road has been transformed into GrosvenorWaterside, arranged around a canal.

One-bedroom flats here range from £540,000 to £1.85 million witha shared-ownership flat available for £295,000 for 55 per cent of ahome with a market value of £575,000.

The Millbank Estate is a popular council-owned estate of ArtNouveau flats in John Islip Street, behind Tate Britain. Most nowowned, they range from studios at £375,000, to £570,000 for aone-bedroom flat and £995,000 for a three-bedroom flat.

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Chelsea Barracks is the former barracks in Chelsea Bridge Roaddeveloped by Qatari Diar, the property company owned by the Qatariroyal family.

It is claimed to be “the most coveted 12.8 acres in the world ” andwill have 440 new homes, of which 126 will be lower cost, arrangedaround seven garden squares. The first three of six phases of 64flats, one mews house, three penthouses and 13 townhouses will befinished later this year. Two-bedroom flats start at £5.25 million.

Taylor Wimpey’s Ebury Place has 47 one-, two- and three-bedroomflats in an 11-storey block with underground parking in SutherlandStreet in the Pimlico grid. Move-in ready two-bedroom flats start at£1,075,000.

A few flats remain at Riverwalk overlooking the Thames at the junction ofVauxhall Bridge and Millbank, from developer Ronson CapitalPartners. Two-bedroom flats from £2.85 million; three-bedroom flatsfrom £3.95 million.

Under the Westminster Home Ownership Accelerator scheme, one-bedroom flats for Westminster residents in Lanhill Road, Maida Valestart at £1,007 a month.

Pimlico is a popular rental area with young professionals, couplesand overseas students at Chelsea College of Arts. One-bedroomflats in the Pimlico grid range from £1,408 a month in AlderneyStreet to £2,275 a month in St George’s Square.

Two-bedroom flats range from £1,746 a month in Churchill Gardensto £3,727 a month in Chapter Street. A two-bedroom WarwickSquare Mews house is £2,500 a month, and it’s £12,000 a month fora six-bedroom house in Gloucester Street.

Pimlico’s most affordable homes are on its estates of social housing.Churchill Gardens between Lupus Street and the river has 1,600homes in 32 medium-rise and low-rise blocks, with six blocks now listed, designed after the Second World War by architects Powell &Moya.

Lillington Gardens off Tachbrook Street is an award-winning developmentof red-brick medium-rise blocks with spacious balconies designed following a competition by Darbourne & Darke and built between1961 and 1972.

Russell House between Cambridge and Alderney Streets in thePimlico grid was built in 1946 in a more traditional Arts & Craftsstyle.

Wandsworth council proposes a new pedestrian and cyclist-onlybridge from Battersea Power Station to Pimlico. However, the fate ofthis bridge is uncertain as Pimlico residents aren’t keen andWestminster council backs them.

GROSVENOR BRIDGEcarries the railway lines out of Victoria station across the RiverThames in London. It was first built in 1860 as part of the Victoria

Station & Pimlico Railway. Designed by John Fowler, the bridgecost £84,000 and carried two railway tracks over four 53.3m riverspans (plus anumber ofapproach spans).Masonry-facedbrick piers carriedsegmentalwrought iron arches, with sixarched ribs ineach span.

As the railwaysrapidly expanded,so did the bridge,with a first widened section completed in 1866 (designed by SirCharles Fox), adding another 5 tracks on the east side. The structure was widened again in 1907, adding a further 2 tracks onthe west side, using mild steel arches.

Due to the cost of maintenance, it was decided in 1958 to replacethe bridge, with work taking place between 1963 and 1967, to adesign by Freeman Fox. The bridge now consists of 10 parallelbridge structures supported on common piers. The arch profile andgeneral elevation of the bridge has remained largely unalteredsince the original construction, although reconstruction and underpinning of the piers has shortened the spans to 50m each.

Throughout construction of the new bridge, the contractor had tomaintain 8 live tracks of railway traffic, and 2 of the 4 river spansalso had to remain open to boat traffic at all times.

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The foundations consisted of a concrete raft (original bridge), fourcast iron caissons filled with concrete (the first widening), and a single cast iron caisson filled with concrete (the second widening).These supported piers variously faced in limestone (orginal) andgranite (widenings). During the reconstruction, the existing foundations were isolated within a cofferdam, and widened in reinforced concrete.

A temporary steel truss was erected above the bridge, and used bothto dismantle the original arches and erect the new arches, lifting the elements onto and off of pontoons. This worked one spanand one track at a time, which is why the new bridge is built of several separate decks rather than one continuous structure.

The current arches are two-pinned welded steel box girders, each1.13m deep and 0.61m wide, with steel plates up to 31mm thick.There are two arch ribs for each bridge deck. Tubular steel spandrelposts carry an orthotropically stiffened steel deck. Further details,construction photographs and technical drawings are available in thebook Railway Bridge Construction by F.A.W. Mann.

It's an essentiallymodern design, butI doubt that anycasual observer isaware of it. Theretention of theoriginal open-spandrel arch elevations meansthat the bridgeappears at firstglance to be anunaltered historic structure.

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My personal cause as a remnant of an earlier generation, one who predates the"silent one " is to support the ever growing band of older and single peoplethrough healthful dining, greater activity and an expansion of their social livesvia real contact and not mobile phones. Having composed a column aroundthis subject for several months, it is with gratitude that I respond to readers withrecipes and replies to their questions. This makes my ramblings worth theeffort, so please send more.

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In Old Pye Street is a large brick building devoted to the comfortand intellectual improvement of the poorest classes of the populationof Westminster. It is known as the Westminster Working Men's Cluband Lodging-house. About the year 1860 a very useful little institutionwas established in a small room in Duck Lane, near StruttonGround. It was the first attempt made in London at a working men'sclub as distinguished from a mechanic's institute—a place of reposeand recreation, opened every evening from 6.00pm - 10.30 pm, on payment of a weekly subscription of one halfpenny. Several daily andweekly papers, with some monthly periodicals, were provided, besidesdraughts and chess; coffee and ginger-beer were supplied at cost price,no alcoholic beverages being admitted. Educational classes were held3 times a week, and lectures, free to members and their families, weregiven every fortnight. A religious service (quite unsectarian) was alsoheld for 1 hour on Sunday evenings. A penny bank was opened 3nights a week, and in 6 months from the commencement, a labourloan society was started.

A temperance association was now formed by members, with asick benefit society attached, formed by paying a penny a week. Abarrow club was also commenced in 1862, for furnishing the memberswho were costermongers with barrows. The cost of a barrow is 55s.a weekly sum is paid, and when the price is liquidated the barrowbecomes the property of the owner. In 1863, the accommodation-

having again become insufficient for its numerous members, an adjoininghouse was taken in, & the club entirely remodelled and improved.

The demolition of Duck Lane, led to the erection, in Old Pye Street,of the pile of buildings above mentioned, which consists partly of aworking men's club and partly of a dwellinghouse, to accommodatebetween 50 and 60 of those families who are ineligible, from thelowness of their weekly wages or from their occupations, for anyother lodging-houses, Mr. Peabody's included, where none but men earning 18s. or 20s. a week are admitted. The new WorkingMen's Club was opened in May, 1866. In the club building, which is

quite distinct from the dwelling-house, there is, on the ground-floor,a spacious club-room, with a lavatory and other accommodationattached, as also a kitchen and library. A portion of the club at thecorner of Old Pye Street and St. Ann's Lane has been fitted up as adouble-fronted shop, where a co-operative store has been established by the members. Over the club-room are a lectureroom, a committee-room, and an office; the lectureroom can be atany time divided into two by a movable partition, so as to form areading-room and a class-room.

Orchard Street was so called from being erected on the oldorchard-garden of the monastery. Here, in 1757, Thomas Amory,author of "Memoirs of John Buncle," lived the life of a recluse, venturing out only in the evening. He died in 1789, at a great age.

To the south-west of the Abbey is a district, between Great SmithStreet and Victoria Street, which was and is known as "The Rookery."These "rookeries" or vagabond colonies were originally the sites ofsanctuaries and refuges for debtors and felons, or else of some"'spital" or "loke" for the reception of the poor, the maimed, and thelepers; the districts in which these asylums were located provingeach the nucleus or nest of a dense pauper and criminal population.For just as the felon of our own days is too often found among theinmates of our "casual wards," so it is probable that of old the"sanctuary men" mixed with the diseased crowds and hordes ofbeggars that swarmed around a "'spital," associating of course withwomen of the lowest class, and so perpetuating the breed of out-casts and thieves, and turning the once "religious houses" intonests of poverty, misery, disease, and vice.

The region above alluded to formerly covered a larger area than itdoes now, comprising as it did New Pye Street, Duck Lane, NewTothill Street, and portions of Orchard Street and Old Pye Street,together with a vast number of courts all of which have been sweptwhen the work of clearance was taken in hand by the WestminsterImprovement Commission. It was in Orchard Street that OliverCromwell had one of his palaces; in those days Palmer's Villagewas the seat of gentlemen's country residences. Lady Dacre, thefoundress of Emmanuel Hospital, left to the City an estate. Thischaritable institution is now located in Little Chapel Street. All thisrurality, together with vile and dirty lanes and courts has disappeared,and transformed into the broad and open thoroughfare, VictoriaStreet,which was and publicly opened in 1851.

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SIR HAROLD GEORGE NICOLSON KCVO CMG was born in Tehran, Persia, on 21st November 1886, the youngestson of diplomat Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. He was educated at Wellington College and Balliol College, Oxford.

In 1909 Nicolson joined HM Diplomatic Service. He served asattaché at Madrid from February to September 1911, and thenThird Secretary at Constantinople from January 1912 to October1914. During the First World War, he served at the Foreign Officein London, during which time he was promoted Second Secretary.As the Foreign Office's most junior employee, it fell to him in

August 1914 to hand Britain's reviseddeclaration of war to the

German ambassador inLondon. He served in a

junior capacity in theParis PeaceConference in 1919,for which he wasappointedCompanion of the

Order of St Michaeland St George (CMG)

in the 1920 New YearHonours.

Promoted First Secretary in 1920, he was appointed private secretary to Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary-General of theLeague of Nations, but was recalled to the Foreign Office in June 1920.

In 1925, he was promoted Counsellor and posted to Tehran asChargé d'affaires. However, in Summer 1927 he was recalled toLondon and demoted to First Secretary for criticising his Minister,Sir Percy Loraine, in a dispatch. He was posted to Berlin asChargé d'affaires in 1928. He was promoted Counsellor again, butresigned from the Diplomatic Service in September 1929.

From 1930 to 1931, Nicolson edited the Londoner's Diary for theEvening Standard, but disliked writing about high-society gossipand quit within a year. In 1931, he joined Sir Oswald Mosley andhis recently formed New Party. He stood unsuccessfully forParliament for the Combined English Universities in the generalelection that year and edited the party newspaper, Action. Heceased to support Mosley when the latter formed the British Unionof Fascists the following year.

Nicolson entered the House of Commons as National Labour MPfor Leicester West in the 1935 election. In the latter half of the1930s he was among a relatively small number of MPs who alertedthe country to the threat of fascism. More a follower of AnthonyEden in this regard than of Winston Churchill, he nevertheless wasa friend (though not an intimate) of Churchill, and often supportedhis efforts in the Commons to stiffen British resolve and supportrearmament.

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He became Parliamentary Secretary and official Censor at theMinistry of Information in Churchill's 1940 wartime government ofnational unity, serving under Cabinet member Duff Cooper forapproximately a year until he was asked by Churchill to leave hisposition; thereafter he was a well-respected backbencher, especially on foreign policy issues given his early and prominentdiplomatic career. From 1941 to 1946 he was also on the Board ofGovernors of the BBC. He lost his seat in the 1945 election.Having joined the Labour Party, he stood in the Croydon North by-election in 1948, but lost once again.

Encouraged in his literary ambitions by his wife Vita Sackville-West, who he married in 1913, Nicolson published a biography ofFrench poet Paul Verlaine in 1921, to be followed by studies ofother literary figures such as Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne andSainte-Beuve. In 1933, hewrote an account of the ParisPeace Conference entitledPeacemaking 1919.

Nicolson is also rememberedfor his 1932 novel PublicFaces, foreshadowing thenuclear bomb. A fictionalaccount of British national policy in 1939, it tells howBritain's secretary of statetried to keep world peace,even with the Royal Air Forceaggressively brandishing rocket airplanes and an atomic bomb. Intoday's terms, it was a multi-megaton bomb, and the geology ofthe Persian Gulf played a central role, but on the other hand,Nicolson never foresaw Hitler.After Nicolson's last attempt to enter Parliament, he continuedwith an extensive social schedule and his programme of writing,which included books, book reviews, and a weekly column for TheSpectator. His diary is one of the pre-eminent British diaries of the20th century and a noteworthy source on British political historyfrom 1930 through the 1950s, particularly in regard to the run-upto World War II and the war itself: Nicolson served in high enoughechelons to write of the workings of the circles of power and theday-to-day unfolding of great events. Nicolson was variously anacquaintance, associate, friend, or intimate to such figures asRamsay MacDonald, David Lloyd George, Duff Cooper, Charlesde Gaulle, Anthony Eden and Winston Churchill, along with a hostof literary and artistic figures.

In the 1930s, he and his wife acquired and moved to SissinghurstCastle, near Cranbrook in Kent, the county known as the gardenof England. There they created the renowned gardens that arenow run by the National Trust. Nicholson died on 1st May 1968.

The brown "blue plaque" commemorating him and Vita Sackville-West on their house in Ebury Street, London SW1.

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BREXIT GOT DONESo, finally, after three years of dither and delay, opposition andobfuscation, Brexit got done. Having formally left the European Unionon the 31st January, it is extremely unlikely that the UK will eventhink about re-applying for a decade, or a generation – or ever.

Of course, to paraphrase Boris Johnson’s role model Churchill,this is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it ismost certainly the end of the beginning. Months of difficult and

tortuous negotiations lie ahead to produce adeal that has to be passed by .the

European Parliament and all 27.remaining EU member states,

.but the die is cast.

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government that more time will beneeded. .This is partly

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continue to demonstrate to member states that leaving is a difficultand long drawn-out process.However, there is also a genuine belief on the part of the EUthat negotiating a fully-comprehensive deal in time for it to beratified by the end of this year is well nigh impossible. The UKgovernment’s response has been to enshrine the 31stDecember 2020 date in law, and to intimate that a timely shallowdeal is better than a delayed deep deal.

The UK government’s confidence is based on a number of factors.First and foremost is its 80-seat majority, with all 365 Tory MPssigned up to ‘getting Brexit done’. It also believes that having listened for three years to British politicians reassuring them thatBrexit could be stopped, most EU officials – and even most EUpoliticians – are now reconciled to the UK’s departure.But over and above these factors the UK government has a verystrong hand to play. The EU wants access to our fishing grounds,and needs access to the capital supplied by the City. The EUneeds British troops to bolster its feeble defences in the northand east, and European students are desperate to retain accessto our global league-topping universities – because theirs are somediocre. And, of course, there is the matter of the UK’s heftytrade deficit with the EU.Finally, the EU knows that President Trump will offer a speedytrade deal, and in the gravitational push-pull of transatlanticgeopolitical relationships, they need to try and keep ourAmerican-born prime minister’s eyes from straying too far west.Lionel Zetter is a writer and entrepreneurlionel@zetterspolitical.com

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TFL FORCING ALL OYSTER CARD USERS TORESET THEIR PASSWORDS

Following reported instances of a number of accounts beingaccessed maliciously earlier this year, all Oyster and contactlesscustomers are being required to reset their website account passwords.

TfL says that it’s a purely precautionary measure, and that there’sno reason to think that the earlier attack has been repeated.

The background is that back in August, TfL became aware that asmall number of customers had had their Oyster online accountsaccessed maliciously, which TfL believes that this occurred whenpeople used the same password on several websites, and one ofthose other websites was hacked into, letting hacker into their TfLaccount using the same password.

Fortunately, no customer payment details were accessed and allaffected customers were contacted and informed about this at the time.

TfL says that it is working with the British Transport Police toinvestigate who is behind the earlier attack, with one personalready arrested, and the Information Commissioners Office hasbeen notified.

As a precautionary measure, TfL has now decided to ask all cus-tomers to reset their passwords via the TfL website, and the resetwill be sent to their registered email account.

Using a different password on every website is a pain, but it’sabout the only way of preventing a hacked website letting someone log-in to your account on an otherwise secure website.

A password manager tool, which generates random passwords foreach website you log into is a good way of reducing that risk, andianVisits makes use of LastPass as a web browser plug-in. Otherpassword managers exist.

Shashi Verma, Chief Technology Officer at Transport for Londonsaid: “Protecting our customers’ data is paramount and we want tohelp our customers to ensure their personal accounts remain safe.As part of this continuing work, we have recently begun making allOyster and Contactless online account holders reset their pass-words when they next sign in.”

Travel using an Oyster or Contactless care won’t be affected, onlyusing the website to check customer account details.

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CARE HOME PLACED IN SPECIAL MEASURESA care home under investigation for abuse allegations has beenbranded “inadequate ” by the Care Quality Commission andplaced in special measures.

A snap inspection of Garside Nursing Home, run by private firmSanctuary Care in Pimlico, found the service received the worstpossible rating in four out of the five categories assessed.

The inspection of the home, which has 27 mainly elderly peoplewit dementia or needing end-of-life care, was triggered by allegations of abuse and care standards in october.

Its report said that because a criminal investigation was ongoing itdid not examine the specific allegations of “mistreatment andabuse” at the home.

But it added: “we have identified breaches of regulation in relationto safe care and treatment, safeguarding, person-centred care,dignity and respect, nutrition and hydration, staffing, acting oncomplaints and good governance at this inspection.”

Inspectors “observed people lacking basic essentials such as atoothbrush, toothpaste and shower gel” while call bell cords were“out of reach for several people.”

During a demonstration it took 10 minutes for a member of staff torespond to a resident pressing an emergency button, and 20% ofstaff did not have proper training.

The report said: “On 11th November 2019, several people’s supply of medicines had run out and emergency supplies wereneeded. One person affected was not given their morning dose ofdiabetes and blood pressure medicine.”

It added: “The service was not safe, the service was not effective,the service was not always caring, the service was not responsiveand the service was not well led.”

Managers were first warned about allegations of abuse and mistreatment of people in the home on October 21st

A spokesperson for Sanctuary Group said: As an organisation thatprides itself on delivering the highest standards of care, we takethese concerns extremely seriously.

“We will continue to strive to enrich the lives of every resident liv-ing in these homes.”

Westminster Labour councillors had raised concerns about care atthe home back in 2018 and had demanded the council bring thecontract back in house.

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