THE GAZETTEER OF DISAPPEARANCES & DELETIONS
The Regent Street Colonnade, SW1 [Sarah Wise]
1. Retrieved from the Builder magazine and the Daily News, November 1848.
AVRAM NACHUM STENCL [Rachel Lichtenstein]
1. ‘Stencl’s Berlin Period’ by Heather Valencia, The Menele Review: Yiddish Literature & Language, Vol. 07.004 (Sequential No. 130), 6 April 2003. Translated from Loshn un Lebn.
2. Taken from interview with Stencl in the film Lively Arts: Whitechapel, made for the BBC in July 1979 by Bristol Arts Unit. Director: Dennis Marks.
3. ‘Stencl of Whitechapel’ by David Katz, The Menele Review: Yiddish Literature & Language, Vol. 07.003, 30 March 2003.
4. Lively Arts: Whitechapel, BBC. British Arts Unit, 1979.
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Bill Fishman, ‘Stencl’, Elam, 1965
Leonard Prager, ‘A. N. Stencl – Poet of Whitechapel’. The first Stencl lecture, given at the Oxford Centre of Postgraduate Studies, 4 August 1983
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Heather Valencia, ‘Czeladz, Berlin & Whitechapel: The World of Avrom Nokem Stencl’, Edinburgh Star, Vol. 5, May 1993
1. Emanuel Litvinoff, ‘A Jew in England’, ed. J. Sonntag. ‘More Jewish – or less?’, First Anglo-Israeli Dialogue, Special Issue, Jewish Quarterly, Spring 1967, p. 8. The present text incorporates material from my earlier article about Litvinoff. See ‘Ghetto Blaster’, Guardian Weekend, 27 March 1993, pp. 16–23. It draws on interviews with Emanuel Litvinoff, held in November 1992 and February 2002. It also includes quotations from unpublished manuscripts borrowed from Emanuel Litvinoff in 1992, including Travels in a Mind Machine, an autobiographical sequel to Journey through a Small Planet.
2. Litvinoff, Journey through a Small Planet (London: Michael Joseph, 1972; repr. Robindark, 1993).
3. Litvinoff, ‘A Jew in England’, p. 8.
4. Ibid., p. 9.
5. Ibid., p. 9.
6. Litvinoff, The Lost Europeans (London: Heinemann, 1960), pp. 92–3.
7. Louis Golding, To the Quayside (London: Hutchinson, 1954), p. 222.
8. Golding, The Bare Knuckle Breed (London: Hutchinson, 1952), p. 13.
9. Litvinoff, Journey through a Small Planet, p. 30.
10. Litvinoff, The Lost Europeans, p. 171.
11. Quoted from Raymond Gardner, ‘Behind the Covers of History’, Guardian, 21 May 1973.
12. ‘To T. S. Eliot’ is collected in Emanuel Litvinoff, Notes for a Survivor (Northern House, 1973).
13. Dannie Abse, A Poet in the Family (London: Hutchinson, 1974), p. 203.
14. Litvinoff, ‘A Jew in England’, p. 10.
1. Sir Ove Arup (1895–1988), founder of Ove Arupand Partners, one of the largest and most widely respected consulting engineering practices in the world.
2. When coal gas was phased out during the 1970s most of the structures associated with its production became redundant apart from gasometers, many of which survive as storage for natural gas, which is largely methane.
3. Wolfgang Schivelbusch writes: ‘The speed with which the gas industry took hold varied with the speed of industrialization in the different European countries. England was the first to come under its thrall, and the industry developed most quickly there; the Continent lagged behind. Within a few years, London became the first metropolis to be largely supplied with gas. In 1814 there was one company, founded by [Frederic] Winsor, which possessed a single gasometer with a capacity of 14,000 cubic feet. Eight years later, in 1822, there were already four companies and forty-seven gasometers with a total volume of almost one million cubic feet.’ Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford, New York, Hamburg: Berg, 1988), pp. 30–31.
4. ‘Coal gas is produced by the destructive distillation of coal, with a composition by volume of (average) 50% hydrogen, 30% methane, 8% carbon monoxide, 4% other hydrocarbons and 8% nitrogen, carbon dioxide and oxygen. The by-products of the process include coke, coal-tar, ammonia, sulphuric acid and pitch. Carbon monoxide is very poisonous, combining with haemoglobin in the blood to produce bright red carboxyhaemoglobin, so that the haemoglobin is no longer available to carry oxygen.’ A Dictionary of Science (London: Penguin, 1964).
1. Maurice Sendak, ‘An Informal Talk’ (1987), in Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books and Pictures (New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1988), p. 214.
2. John Richardson, Camden Town and Primrose Hill Past (London: Historical Publications, 1991), pp. 9, 21, 90–91; Gillian Tindall, The Fields Beneath (London: M. T. Smith, 1977), pp. 84–5.
3. Christina Larner, Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981).
4. Anon., The Life and Prophecies of Ursula Sontheil, better known as Mother Shipton, ed. Dropping Well Estate, Knaresborough, Yorkshire, n.d. From the Local History Library, Camden Town.
5. John Ashton, Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century (London: Chatto & Windus, 1882), pp. 88–91.
1. Claudette Earle, ‘Media Concepts for Human Development in the Caribbean with Special Reference to Women’, in Women of the Caribbean, ed. Pat Ellis (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1988), p. 116.
2. Leila emailed me this after reading how I took her words: ‘Also, the reason I don’t use the “I” is because in French a common saying was “Le moi est haïssable” [the use of the first person is odious]. That is why we say “on dit” [one says] rather than “je dis” [I say], or “on est toujours heureux quand on est…”, etc. [one is always happy when one is…]. I guess that that is different now…forty years on!’
1. Panikos Panayi, The Enemy in Our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War (New York and Oxford: Berg, 1991).
2. Ruth Valentine, The Jeweller’s Skin, unpublished.
3. Nigel Middleton, When the Family Failed (London: Gollancz, 1971), p. 121.
4. Ibid., p. 125.