Head Space Daily Words...

This week I have been working in one of my favourite areas of London - Fitzrovia. I may have mentioned before, that in a book called London Calling by Barry Miles, it talks of how the area got it's name. It sounds very regal and stately but according to the book, I think it was in the late 1940s - early 1950s, a collective of poets and authors would meet regularly under the leadership of a guy called Tambimittu, who had come to London from Ceylon, Sri Lanka as it is known today. Anyway, these 'meetings' would start at the Fitroy Tavern and turn into a pub crawl, which worked its way down Charlotte Street, Rathbone Place, across Oxford Street and down Dean Street. Tambimittu termed this procession, of visiting these various pubs 'roving' and being as it started in the Fitzroy Tavern, the pub name and the idea of roving became combined and the term Fitzrovia become attached to the area. So, now you know, it is not a stately name but actually associated with the act of becoming drunk by visiting many public houses within that particular area of London...