Last night I attended a lecture by local historian Stephen Humphrey who discussed the general history of the Elephant & Castle, focussing more particularly on what he called its heyday (between 1850 and 1940). This is part of a week-long art project ( The Elephant Project ) hosted in an empty unit on the first floor of the infamous shopping centre, aiming to chart some of the changes currently happening to the area. When an historian starts talking about the Elephant and Castle, there is one subject he can not possibly avoid, even if he wanted to. Indeed my unsuspecting announcement on Facebook that I was attending such talk prompted a few people to ask the dreaded question: Where does the name of the area come from, for realz? Panoramic view of the Elephant and Castle around 1960/61. Those of us less badly informed than the rest have long discarded the theory that the name comes from the linguistic deformation of "Infanta de Castille", a name which would have become at
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ReplyDeletethank you for alerting me to your blog as well..and thank you for taking the time to read mine, to enjoy it and also, to not take offense at the french jokes! actually, one of my best girl friends is Parisian..mostly I am kidding, but for some reason, within the business atmosphere, Frenchmen do seem a bit difficult!
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PS: I would love to be able to put links on my blog to other blogs--I noticed you are able to do that..any idea how I do that? I wrote blogger but didn't get an answer.
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