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City Slet 04

You are invited to join City Slet 04

11.30am-12.45pm
Sunday 28 March 2010

Meet outside St Andrews Church, Holborn Circus
Nearest tube: Farringdon

City Slet 04 is the fourth in a series of architecture and exercise trails
in London's square mile. Documentation from City Slet 01-03 can be found on a new blog dedicated to the Slet project - http://sletsite.blogspot.com/

Please be advised this exercise trail is for adults of moderate fitness as
we will jog between architectural sites. The trail will end at Temple.

Free but booking essential
Please RSVP to info@oopps.org

The Thing in the Library

Caption: Against The Wind
Canadian star Robert Beatty with the French actress Simone Signoret in an unusual setting from the film of Anglo-Belgian resistance. Charles Crichton directed.

Michael Balcon's 25 Years in Films
Ed: M. Danischewsky
World Flim Publications Ltd
London 1947

Library Fashion

Caption: The Boatneck Pullovers shown opposite get their distinction from 'Swedish Weave' stripes which are made by weaving in yarn as you knit.



McCall's Needlework in Colour
Hamlyn
London 1972

The first in a series of images of libraries from my collection of oop books.

City Slet 03

You are invited to join City Slet 03

11.30am -12.45pm
Sunday 21 February 2009

Meet at Barbican Centre
Just inside Silk Street entrance
Nearest tube: Moorgate (Barbican is likely to be closed, check tfl.com
before traveling)

City Slet 03 is the third in a series of architecture and exercise trails
in London's square mile. Documentation from City Slet 01 & 02 can be found on a new blog dedicated to the Slet project - http://sletsite.blogspot.com/

Please be advised this exercise trail is for adults of moderate fitness as
we will jog between architectural sites. The trail will end near St Pauls.

Free but booking essential
Please RSVP to info@oopps.org

Chapel Strength

While visiting my grandma in Hove I discovered The Gospel Standard Baptist Library in an outhouse in the grounds of her home, Bethesda - a fantastic resource of Baptist tracts and theological books. It's a very well-kept lending library for members of the Strict Baptist denomination and organised with good old fashioned card cataloging.









Residents of Bethesda are also blessed with daily sermons piped in from Brighton, which is then broadcast into their rooms via the apparatus below at 'chapel strength.'

Vulcan Dog

The First Book of Vulcan Dog
Stewart Cowley
Attic Press
London 1971

Spotted in Lewisham Library January sale. Is this a rare early title by the science fiction author of the Terran Trade Authority Handbook series? I think it's likely but I have found no confirmation of this from my initial research. Now the hunt for The Second Book commences...