UNCLE Deptford

Perhaps the most famous declaration about our nation’s capital is ‘When a man is tired of London he is tired of life’. The speaker was 18th Century man of letters Samuel Johnson, sole author of one of the most influential early dictionaries of English. Johnson’s quote lingers on in the popular imagination because it captures the seemingly inexhaustible variety of this huge and beguiling metropolis.

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