The Grape & Grain, Crystal Palace

24 hours til departure

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January 26th 2011
The last few days, leading up to today, have been taken up mostly by trying to clear my flat and get it ready to hand back to the letting agents - tomorrow I have to go down to South Norwood to hand back the keys before I make my way across the city to Heathrow in the afternoon. Everything I put on eBay went! Sometimes it took a couple of tries if I made the starting price too high the first ti ... read more

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Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more