“I believe, Sir, that you desire to look at these apartments. They are very charming apartments, Sir. They command an uninterrupted view of – of over the way, and they are within one minute’s walk of – of the corner of the street.”

(Dick Swiveller in The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens, 1812 – 1870)

John Lentell

28th January, 1970