Peacay, onlie begetter of the splendid BibliOdyssey site, sent me a link, saying: ‘Sometimes I see a link and they sing to me. This link sang “Hoooot Hoooooooooot Hooooooooooooting Yardâ€.
http://www.forgottenfutures.com/pantech/pant1.htm
I shan’t spoil the occasion by describing it.’
Peacay is right. Go there and be lost in wonder and delight.
To wit:
LONDON’S
GOLD
MINES:
A DAY AMONG THE DUSTMEN.
Being some personal glimpses of one of Britain’s great enterprises, its remarkable achievements in the gathering of dust, with a bright and interesting account in which the writer gives his impressions of a visit to a London dust-cart.
By
MORTIMER TOMBES.
I could have been doing my Very Sensible Work for hours and instead I’ve been wooed and seduced into http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/ .
Curses, curses and further curses, many of them quite immoderate.