Sans Walk, a Fenian Outrage and the Edge of London

~ Billy Mann

Another reblog from A London Inheritance featuring my area of London. This one is especially close to home because not only do I live nearby, I worked with printers in the area, an earthy crowd forever ready with a practical joke. One of them once told me that the Caribbean island of Sans Serif was the printers’ favourite holiday destination.

There are three photos in my father’s collection that I have not been able to identify. They were labelled “Sans Walk area”. Sans Walk is in …

Sans Walk, a Fenian Outrage and the Edge of London

Published by Billy Mann

I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love studios. I blog regularly and volunteer as a teaching assistant, coaching schoolchildren in aspects of journalism.

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