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Flight of fancy

Rating: 3

May 31st 2011

Peter de Loriol investigates the murderer Ronald True

The First Christmas

Rating: 3

November 26th 2010

Peter de Loriol on the origin of the first Christmas Card

ENTENTE CORDIALE

Rating: 3

October 20th 2010

Peter de Loriol investigates Voltaire’s only English friend, Sir Everard Fawkener, of Wandsworth

Entente Cordiale

Rating: 2

September 28th 2010

Peter de Loriol investigates Voltaire’s only English friend, Sir Everard Fawkener, of Wandsworth

Local history: North End Road

Rating: 3

August 26th 2010

Getting away from it all - Peter de Loriol on Edward Burne Jones of North End Road, Fulham

Who pays the Ferryman?

Rating: 3

July 20th 2010

The Story of Battersea Bridge by Peter de Loriol

Just the biz!

Rating: 2

June 17th 2010

Peter de Loriol lifts the lid on JABEZ S. BALFOUR, fraudster, of Clapham

She stoops to conquer

Rating: 2

May 21st 2010

Peter de Loriol harks back to ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’s education in Southfields

Degrees of separation

Rating: 3

May 21st 2010

Peter de Loriol on Chief Inspector Abberline of Mayflower Road

Albert's dinosaur: Albert Bridge undergoes renovation

Rating: 2

March 24th 2010

Peter de Loriol asks, is Albert Bridge on the way out?

House of princes: Fulham's Brandenburg House

Rating: 2

February 26th 2010

Peter de Loriol on Fulham’s Brandenburg House

Law and disorder: Henry Fielding and the missing Barnes connection?

Rating: 3

February 25th 2010

Peter de Loriol on HENRY FIELDING, of Barnes, perhaps...

The Empire Bridge

Rating: 3

February 24th 2010

Peter de Loriol discovers the story of Chelsea Bridge

Mysterious murders on Prince of Wales Drive

Rating: 2

February 24th 2010

Peter de Loriol on an unsolved Battersea murder

My Heart Belongs to Wessex: Thomas Hardy

Rating: 2

February 24th 2010

Peter de Loriol recounts Thomas Hardy’s Tooting sojourn

By Hook or by crook: Theodore Hook's Fulham home

Rating: 3

February 24th 2010

Peter de Loriol on the house in which Theodore Hook lived in Fulham

A mirror cracked: Southside House, Wimbledon

Rating: 3

February 24th 2010

Peter de Loriol finds a gem, Southside House on Wimbledon Common

Britain's first public 'railway' - in Wandsworth

Rating: 3

February 24th 2010

Peter de Loriol discovers Britain’s first public ‘Railway’ in Wandsworth

test

Rating: 2

February 5th 2010

test

Coster Joe of Kenilworth Court, Putney

Rating: 2

November 26th 2009

Peter de Loriol on Fred Russell, the ventriloquist of Putney past