Some questions about London

[George Yves]

I'm helping to one of my colleagues to prepare a lesson about London. She wants to use a poem "Born and Bread in London" and she asked me to find out where the places from the poem are. I'm sorry but I'd like to ask Londoners for help: I need maps and images of London and the places from the poem. Here's the poem:

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Born and Bred in London

I was born and bread in London;
I know it like the back of my hand;
from Camden Lock
to the Shell-Mex clock,
from Old Street to the Strand.

I've jogged down Piccadilly
and strolled through Leicester Square,
been to Holland Park
for a ramble in the dark,
and to Hampstead for the fair.

I know every street in London;
I could do it with my eyes tight shut;
from Madame Tussauds
to the House of Lords
from Hyde Park to the Gut.

I've sauntered down to Kentish Town
and run to Tottenham Hale,
walked the Old Kent_ Road
while it hailed and snowed
and lurched down Maida Vale.

I know my way round London,
no-one knows it better than me;
been to Hammersmith Palais,
Covent Garden for the ballet
and The Ritz for china tea.

I visit the Bond Street Galleries,
I'm seen at the best affairs;
go to Waterloo
for a private view,
drink Pimm's on Crush Bar stairs.

I've been everywhere in London,
by taxi, bus and train;
I've crawled, I've biked,
I've hopped, I've hiked,
from Saint Paul's to Drury Lane.

And though I've seen the lot now,
from London Bridge to Kew,
I would do it all again,
from Blackheath to old Big Ben,
just to show it all to you.
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Could anybody help me to find maps of London and images of the places (in bold)? Thank you very much in advance, friends.

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PS: A strange thing happens in this forum: I can't type the word Kent_ without additional symbols - it automatically turns into an asterisk.  

[SpeedyPC]

Have a look at this site to help you about London http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=a+poem+Born+and+Bread+in+London&fb=1&gl=au&hq=a+poem+Born+and+Bread&hnear=London,+UK&view=text&ei=QrwhTJ69OMuHcfL1yEc&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=more-results&resnum=4&ved=0CCUQtQMwAw

[George Yves]

Thank you, SpeedyPC 

Google Maps are helpful as usual but the problem is that I need static maps to be shown on the interactive computer board, and pupils are to "travel" around London and to move images of sights to their locations.

[SpeedyPC]

Thank you, SpeedyPC  

Google Maps are helpful as usual but the problem is that I need static maps to be shown on the interactive computer board, and pupils are to "travel" around London and to move images of sights to their locations.

Static maps of London no problem http://mapsof.net/london/static-maps

[FreewheelinFrank]

Most of the places are fairly famous and the names at least would be familiar to most UK residents (and Google.co.uk should bring up more information.)

The two that are not familiar to me (UK born and London resident for a couple of years a decade or so ago) are the crush bar and the Gut.

The crush bar might be this (Pimms is a drink favoured by the opera-going classes):

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=100302

The Gut I have no idea.

EDIT: it may be a typo for The Cut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cut,_London

[DavidR]

Unless whoever named it 'The Gut' was a Soldier, Sailor or Airman that had served in Malta, The Gut (Straight Street) was an infamous red light area

[SpeedyPC]

Unless whoever named it 'The Gut' was a Soldier, Sailor or Airman that had served in Malta, The Gut (Straight Street) was an infamous red light area

Found it   I think

THE GUT IN MALTA.

I must go down to the gut again
To the place where there is no sky
And all I ask is a ’Hop Leaf’
And some Marsavin to pass me by.
To see The Gyppo Queen and Cotton Club
To taste the Farsens Blue
But Doug, Arthur and all the rest
I’d do the trip with you.
I remember Ben Marl’s Restaurant(??)
I remember the bangers and Mash
But wasn’t Ben Marl the bloke who helped
Old Spiro take away Gash?
I remember the Barracca Lift Oh Yes
The Gardens at the top
I remember the Garry’s (Karrozin) Conning us
When we tried to make them stop.
I remember so many many things
But lots of it I’ve forgot
So until I get my memory back
I’ll have another tot

[FreewheelinFrank]

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PS: A strange thing happens in this forum: I can't type the word Kent_ without additional symbols - it automatically turns into an asterisk. 

Somebody can't spell 'bunt'.

A: Anyway, you're interested in one of our holidays are you?
C: Yes thats right, I saw your advert in the bolour supplement.
A: The what?
C: The bolour supplement.
A: The colour supplement?
C: Yes thats right. Im afraid I cant say the letter B
A: C?
C: Yes. Its all due to a trauma I suffered when I was a
   Sboolboy. I was attacked by a bat.
A: Ah, a cat?
C: No a bat.
A: Well can you say the letter K?
C: Oh yes, Khaki, Kettle, Kipling, Kuwait, Kings Bollege Bambridge.
A: Well why dont you say the letter K, instead of the letter C?
C: What, you mean spell bolour with a K.
A: Right.
C: Kolour.
A: Yes.
C: Ah thats very good. I never thought of that before. What a silly
   bunt.

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/activity/h/humor/Special/Monty.Python/travel.agency

Somebody from the avast! team needs to correct the forum censorship database.

[polonus]

Hi folks,

Who is going off-topic here? Good that George Yves is trying to achieve a shortcut to mastering the Queen's English and that is not found at all within the sound of Bow Bells, but then alas we have some "tough ones" here to give him a hand, and by the way it is "born and bred", term is also known as a light-hearted British drama series,

Damian

[YoKenny]

@ polonus

Then there are Cockneys that seem to have their own language.

I know Cockney. 

[jadinolf]

If I missed it, it should be bred not bread.

Just a few comments.

[George Yves]

If I missed it, it should be bred not bread.

Just a few comments.

Thanks for the comments. I've just corrected the spelling in the poem's title.

@All
Thank you very much for your help, friends.  

[polonus]

Hi YoKenny,

I know you knew why you go up the "apples and pears" and why you land on your "plates of meat" and why someone's wife is called his "trouble and strife", so you were one of the "tough ones", also known as the only real Londoners, have your white beans gluten-free now....

pol

[YoKenny]

Yo  polonus

My grand mother on my mother's side lived in Barking Essex:
http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&q=barking+essex&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Barking,+Essex,+UK&gl=ca&ei=blgjTMCfMMfsnQeNkaDADw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBwQ8gEwAA

The stories my gandmother and mother told me made them the "tough ones" as they lived through 5 years of  "trouble and strife" and they did not have much  "apples and pears" nor "plates of meat" during that time.