The London Daily Newsletter Wednesday 1 March

The month of March is named after Mars. In the early Roman calendar this was the first month of the year and marked the start of the war season. Mars was the god of war, and as such one of the most important gods in the Roman pantheon. Mars was a member of the archaic Capitoline Triad, but was later replaced by Minerva. Mars was the son of Juno. He was often identified with the Greed god Ares. Mars was one of the few gods to which a bull could be sacrifices. A special priest was appointed to the worship of Mars, the Flamen Martialis. There was a Temple of Mars in the Campus Martius, and Augustus had a Temple of Mars Ultor, Mars the Avenger, built in the Forum of Augustus to celebrate the defeat of Julius Caesar’s assassins. Additionally, on the anniversary of the foundation of the temple of Juno Lucina on the Esquiline, Roman matrons held a festival known as the Matronalia on 1 March.

Green Street
Green Street was once a separate village from Borehamwood but is now on the edge of its urban area.

Green Street is the modern name for the road which runs through the area, north to south, and which connects Borehamwood with Shenley. On maps issued in 1900, the southern part of the hamlet is shown as being called Greenstreet Hill, dominated by a large house called ’Campions’ (later giving its name to a local school). Two farms, Leggats Farm and Cowleyhill Farm once lay to the south. The main part of the village in former times lay to the north of the modern junction with [Stapleton Road, WD6|Stapleton Road]. The village supported two pubs at the turn of the twentieth century – the [[51202|Red Lion]] and the [[34056|Green Willows]]

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.

Queen’s Road Station, Bayswater (c. 1916)

Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)

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