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Author Archives: Sue Blundell

Part of the front cover of Fitzrovia News: Celebrating 50 Years.
Posted inNews

Fitzrovia News: Celebrating 50 Years

by Nick Bailey, Sue Blundell and Linus Rees 11:08 am, Friday, 21 July 20235:41 pm, Friday, 21 July 2023

Fitzrovia has had its own community newspaper for 50 years. That has to be a cause for celebration. So now we have published a book reflecting on the past five decades of local news. Over the years the name of this publication has changed, and it has been a bit stop-start at times as its […]

Image montage showing clock face on Westminster Clock Tower, a street with trees, City of Westminster coat of arms, and a man servicing a gas lamp.
Posted inNews

Affordable housing and retrofitting – is Westminster Council keeping its promise?

by Sue Blundell 8:08 am, Tuesday, 2 May 20237:37 pm, Monday, 15 May 2023
Entrance to 33 Tottenham Street, Fitzrovia.
Posted inFeatures

Women in fashion: rediscovering Betty Jackson

by Sue Blundell 12:54 pm, Monday, 3 April 20238:59 pm, Thursday, 1 June 2023
Abstract painting of female figures.
Posted inFeatures

Helen Saunders and the perils of Percy Street

by Sue Blundell 12:09 pm, Monday, 16 January 202312:09 pm, Monday, 16 January 2023
Marchers hold a banner of the University and College Union (UCU) London Region as they march through Fitzrovia.
Posted inNews

University and College Union members march through Fitzrovia

by Sue Blundell 3:35 pm, Thursday, 1 December 20223:35 pm, Thursday, 1 December 2022
Photo of a flowered jacquard bodice, made in eighteenth century France.
Posted inFeatures

An inspiration for contemporary fashion, film and fabrics

by Sue Blundell 6:03 pm, Monday, 1 August 202211:04 am, Friday, 12 August 2022
Enamel street sign on brick building stating Mortimer Street, W1, City of Westminster.
Posted inFeatures

Safe spaces for working women: Mortimer Street in late Victorian and Edwardian times

by Sue Blundell 10:04 am, Monday, 21 March 202210:18 am, Sunday, 26 February 2023
Front view of 29 Fitzroy Square, London.
Posted inFeatures

A flowering of talent: Eileen Agar, Gluck, and Constance Spry

by Sue Blundell 6:57 am, Wednesday, 8 December 20212:02 pm, Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Festival of Britain logo.
Posted inFeatures

Reliefs are a reminder of the festival of art and science

by Sue Blundell 7:05 am, Monday, 5 July 20216:53 pm, Friday, 2 July 2021
Rathbone Place street sign.
Posted inFeatures

‘Made in Fitzrovia’: Roberts Radios

by Sue Blundell 7:32 am, Wednesday, 12 May 202112:46 pm, Saturday, 29 January 2022
Posted inFeatures

Don’t go near the water: the story of Hylas

by Sue Blundell 7:44 am, Monday, 15 March 20218:04 pm, Sunday, 14 March 2021
Posted inCulture, Features

Meeting the goddess Hygeia on Hallam Street

by Sue Blundell 7:27 am, Tuesday, 22 December 20201:17 pm, Sunday, 3 January 2021
Opera cast.
Posted inCulture, Events

Dear Marie Stopes: ‘birth-control opera’ returns as a powerful melodic reminder

by Sue Blundell 9:10 pm, Friday, 6 September 20199:19 pm, Friday, 6 September 2019
Scene from BBC adaption of The Woman in White.
Posted inCulture

Wilkie Collins lived out the double identities of his characters

by Sue Blundell 10:52 pm, Monday, 30 April 201811:20 pm, Monday, 30 April 2018
People standing in a pub.
Posted inCulture

Eric Coates: the popular composer who proved his critics wrong

by Sue Blundell 7:23 am, Friday, 12 May 201712:08 pm, Friday, 12 May 2017
Posted inFeatures

The wild woman who bore the king four children

by Sue Blundell 8:14 am, Tuesday, 7 August 201210:35 am, Sunday, 9 April 2023
Posted inFeatures

The young actress Charles Dickens kept in a love nest

by Sue Blundell 9:52 am, Sunday, 6 May 201210:36 am, Sunday, 9 April 2023
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In memoriam: Mike Pentelow (1946-2020)

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Mike Pentelow enjoying music and a drink at the King and Queen pub in September 2018.

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