The London Daily Newsletter Thursday 19 January

On 19 January 1998, Carl Perkins died. He was a sharecropper’s son who learned music on a guitar fashioned from a cigar box and broomstick, was a rockabilly pioneer, influencing the likes of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. He died of complications resulting from a series of recent strokes. Perkins was a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and wrote the definitive anthem of ’50s cool’, Blue Suede Shoes. His career took off in 1956, when he wrote and recorded the song after hearing a young man warn his prom date not step on his fancy footwear.

Chenies
Chenies is a village in Buckinghamshire on the border with Hertfordshire, east of Amersham and north of Chorleywood.

Until the 1400s, the village name of Chenies was Isenhampstead. There were two settlements here: Isenhampstead Chenies and Isenhampstead Latimers, distinguished by two lords of the manors. In the 19th century the prefix was dropped and the two villages became known as Latimer and Chenies. The parish church of St Michael includes the Bedford Chapel, burial place of many notable members of the Russell family.

TUM Book Club: Old Covent Garden
The magic of the old Covent Garden Market is evoked through Clive Boursnell’s photographs, taken over the course of numerous visits to Covent Garden in the 1960s and 1970s.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Clive Boursnell, then a young photographer, shot thousands of photographs of the old Covent Garden, documenting the end of an era before the markets moved out of central London. Boursnell captured these last days of the market over a period of six years, from 1968 until the market’s closure, in a series of beautiful portraits of the feisty life of a city institution.

“A Sunset with a View of Nine Elms” (c.1755)

Samuel Scott/Tate Britain

Video: Flying into LCY
A simulated flight into LCY courtesy of Google Earth Studio.