Comments on The Greenwich Phantom: Dancing Sailors

A plate of ham is not what you think it is. In fa...

2009-01-26T14:14:00.000Z

A plate of ham is not what you think it is. In fact it is something a lady would sit down to while a gentleman stood up. No doubt the lady would collect a fee for doing so.

Not really so strange

Wow - that's one prolific writer. I particularly l...

2008-11-20T07:51:00.000Z

Wow - that's one prolific writer. I particularly like the look of Under London.

But his subject matter is huge. I shall definitely pick up something lese by him next time I see it in a second hand shop, now I know more about him.

Dear GP,To help if you try and find more Stephen G...

2008-11-19T20:28:00.000Z

Dear GP,
To help if you try and find more Stephen Graham books, here is a list of the ones I am aware of.

A life of Alexander II Tsar of Russia
A modern vanity fair
A private in the guards
A tramps sketches - Book + Digital
A vagabond in the Caucasus
Alexander of Jugoslavia
Balkan monastry
Boris Godunof
Changing Russia
Characteristics
Children of the slaves
Europe - whither bound
Everybody pays
Great American short stories
Great Russian short stories
Great Russian short stories
In quest of Eldorado
In the track of the Crusaders - Overland with a rucksack to Jerusalem
Life and last words of Wilfred Ewart
Life of Ivan the Terrible
London nights
Midsummer music
New York nights - No Book - Digital
Part of the wonderful scene
Peter the Great
Priest of the ideal
Russia and the world
Russia in division
Russia in1916
St. Vitus day
Stalin
Summing up on Russia
The challenge of the dead
The death of yesterday
The gentle art of tramping
The lay confessor
The quest of the face
The Soul of John Brown - PDF see ext HD
The tramp's anthology
The way of Martha and two Mary - Book + PDF
Thinking of living?
Through Russian central asia
Tramping with a poet in the Rockies PDF see ext HD
Twice round the London clock
Under-London
Undiscovered Russia - No book - Digital + PDF
With poor emmigrants to America
With the Russian pilgrims to Jerusalem

Many of them are quite boring but some are quite interesting,
Regards,
Alistair

Thanks for that, Alistair - always fascinating to ...

2008-11-18T15:31:00.000Z

Thanks for that, Alistair - always fascinating to know the story behind a very odd book.

I'm on the lookout for more by him now...

Dear Greenwich Phantom,Re Twice Round the London C...

2008-11-17T19:45:00.000Z

Dear Greenwich Phantom,
Re Twice Round the London Clock author, Stephen Graham, he wasn't a tubby, posh bloke, he was just 'brocht up right'. His
writings seem pretty dated by current standards but, he travelled extensively and could pass as a tall Russian in his many visits there. He was fluent in Russian at a time when non Russian
visitors were not welcome. He visited many parts of the region on foot and travelled with pilgrims to Jerusalem. He also travelled to the USA by emmigrant ship, hiked (tramping being his term) the Rockies and followed the journey of Cortez to his El Dorado.
Wilfrid Ewart,one of his friends, was watching new year
celebrations from his hotel balcony in Mexico City when a reveller fired his gun and shot Ewart in the eye killing him.
Graham was born in Edinburgh of Northumberland stock, his father, one Peter Anderson Graham, was also an author and editor of Country Life for many years. SG joined The Guards as a private and wrote of his experiences - perhaps one of the first whistle blowers. I may be a bit biased as he was my dad's uncle.
Regards,
Alistair MacKenzie

'Plate of ham' is sexual slang, and no doubt well ...

2008-10-02T15:08:00.000+01:00

'Plate of ham' is sexual slang, and no doubt well worth the money. You could certainly sit down to it!

It shut down a year or two ago, but here's a 2006 ...

2008-09-27T13:59:00.000+01:00

It shut down a year or two ago, but here's a 2006 review:

http://www.fancyapint.com/pubs/pub3128.html

The punters and girls have moved to the Standard, near the DLR.

Wow - so it only closed a couple of years ago? Whe...

2008-08-01T11:46:00.000+01:00

Wow - so it only closed a couple of years ago?

Where do the half-hour 'nappers' go now, I wonder? That area just to the west of the Dome looks pretty seedy - it wouldn't surprise me if "napping" went on there...

The California is in North Woolwich. I passed it o...

2008-08-01T11:23:00.000+01:00

The California is in North Woolwich. I passed it on a bike ride a few years back, and stopped for a minute to appreciate its 19th Century Docklands sleaziness. There was a hand-written day-glo paper sign in the window: rooms available by the half hour. It was midday and I didn't happen to need a nap at the time, so I pressed on. Looking it up just now, I see that it's closed down recently.

I truly wish I had time travelling abilites becaus...

2008-07-31T17:50:00.000+01:00

I truly wish I had time travelling abilites because I would genuinely love to be able to walk through the streets of London's docks as they used to be, gor blimey even better wiv an ol pea-souper sitting o'er it all.

I suppose a comment about 'Salty Seamen' would not...

2008-07-31T11:23:00.000+01:00

I suppose a comment about 'Salty Seamen' would not be appropriate, would it?
I like the idea of a 'City Gent' coming down to lowly Charlton and finding a load of butch Sailors dancing a merry jig....with each other!!
How shocking that the lower classes should do such a thing, I only thought it was at Boarding Schools that this sort of behaviour took place. My God, even the commoners are doing it.

Lucky them!!.......