After Quiet Years, British Regulator Gets Tough on Abuses

After Quiet Years, British Regulator Gets Tough on Abuses  

Britain's securities regulator once had a reputation for taking a light-touch approach to regulation.

No longer. The regulator, the Financial Services Authority, is acting instead more and more like a heavy, conducting predawn raids and bringing a rising number of cases for insider trading and other market abuses.

The efforts have begun to snare some big names. This month, Ian Hannam, JPMorgan Chase's global chairman of equity capital markets in London, resigned after the regulator fined him £450,000 ($725,000) over disclosing inside information. Mr. Hannam is appealing the decision. In January, the prominent money manager David Einhorn and his hedge fund, Greenlight Capital, also were fined a combined £7.3 million over using confidential information to trade in the stock of a British pub chain. Mr. Einhorn denied any wrongdoing, but decided to settle the case rather than fight it.

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Essex man and Mondeo man

精靈之城：德里一年 City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
p.9  Essex Man 沒注解決
這是近代1980s 英國社會的一重要概念語
現在Wikipedia可以找出這字的說明 新的平均人 工人階段 嚮往中產者

Essex man and Mondeo man are stereotypical figures which were popularised in 1990s England. "Essex man" as a political figure is an example of a type of median voter and was used to help explain the electoral successes of Margaret Thatcher in the previous decade. The closely related "Mondeo man" was identified as the sort of voter the Labour Party needed to attract to win the 1997 election.^[1]

Contents 1 Background 2 Essex man and Thatcherism 3 Mondeo man 4 See also 5 References

Background

Although the Labour Party is sometimes considered the "natural choice" for the working class, there has traditionally been a group within that class who have voted Conservative,^[2] who are distinct from the "Essex man" phenomenon.
After World War II, there was considerable social change in south-east England. Working class families were encouraged to leave the war-damaged slums in inner London and move to newly built council-owned properties in the suburbs and "new towns" in the home counties, including Basildon and Harlow in Essex.
With the decline of manufacture and skilled manual work in the 1980s, this group increasingly looked to middle class professions for employment or became self-employed. Their children enjoyed housing, education and employment opportunities far removed from the experiences of their parents.^[3]

Essex man and Thatcherism

Margaret Thatcher's policies from 1979 to 1990 included lower taxation, control of inflation and sale of council housing stock at subsidised prices. These policies (in particular, the right to buy scheme) are thought to have caused many people who had traditionally voted Labour in Essex to switch their allegiance in the 1979, 1983 and 1987 elections.^[4] The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) lists the earliest reference to the Essex man as one from 7 October 1990 in the (conservative) Sunday Telegraph, although a reference to 26 January 1990 issue of Campaign: "Representative [David Amess] of new Essex man, working-class, father electrician, right-wing, keen hanger, noisily rambunctious, no subtlety".^[5] Owing to the similarities between the politics of Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's America, the contemporary term "Reagan Democrat" is roughly analogous to "Essex man".

Mondeo man

1995 Ford Mondeo of the type "Mondeo man" may have aspired to.

The concept of the "Mondeo man" was popularised by a phrase used by Tony Blair at the Labour Party conference in 1996. He recalled a Ford Sierra owner he had canvassed in his Sedgefield constituency while campaigning for the 1992 election. The man was a self-employed electrician met by Blair while polishing his car at the weekend and told Blair that he was an ex-Labour voter who had bought his former council house, owned his own car and wondered what the Labour party had to offer him given the party's history of raising taxes and mortgage rates:

His dad voted Labour, he said. He used to vote Labour, too. But he'd bought his own house now. He'd set up his own business. He was doing very nicely. "So I've become a Tory" he said. In that moment, he crystallised for me the basis of our failure... His instincts were to get on in life. And he thought our instincts were to stop him. But that was never our history or our purpose.^[6]

This is the story that is often credited with inspiring Blair's concept of New Labour and the "Mondeo man" superseded the "Essex man" as the target of the 1997 Labour Party election campaign.^[7] (By 1993, the Sierra had been replaced by the Mondeo in the Ford model range, hence the misquote that gave birth to Mondeo Man).^[8][9] Blair subsequently won the 1997 General Election with a landslide victory.^[1]

See also

• Basildon constituency
• Essex girl
• Holby City woman
• Motorway man
• Nouveau riche
• Reagan Democrat
• Southern Discomfort (Fabian Society pamphlets)
• Worcester woman
• The Only Way Is Essex

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Ollie Stone-Lee, Who's the new Mondeo man?, BBC News 2 January 2005
2. ^ Tanner, D., Political Change and the Labour Party 1900-1918 (1990)
3. ^ Butler, T., Social Change and the Middle Classes (1995)
4. ^ Israeli, R. and Ball, S., Mass Conservatism (2002)
5. ^ "What sort of person signs up as an advertiser?", Campaign, January 26, 1990
6. ^ Mondeo Man? Now Tories chase Miss Staff Room, Daily Mail, 26 April 2007
7. ^ Michael Streeter, Election '97: This time, prime target is Mondeo Man, The Independent, 10 April 1997
8. ^ George Jones, Does Mondeo Man Matter Any More?, Daily Telegraph, 28 April 2007
9. ^ Taxation: Squeezing middle Britain The Guardian, Monday 31 January 2011

Special Travel Issue: London 倫敦旅季專集 紐約時報

Andrew Testa for The New York Times

Going to the London Games and More

Guides to going to the 2012 Olympic Games, exploring London’s neighborhoods and getting outside the city in a special issue of the Travel section.

Travel Dispatch

My London, and Welcome to It

By A.A. GILL

"If New York is a wise guy, Paris a coquette, Rome a gigolo and Berlin a wicked uncle, then London is an old lady who mutters and has the second sight." A Londoner reviews his town.

單字: gigolo/ gigot, coquette,second-sight, sleight

Practical Traveler

Want to Go to the Olympics? Act Now

By MICHELLE HIGGINS

Advice for procrastinators on scoring tickets and booking flights for London this summer.

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Heads Up

Short of Cash? Rent a Lawn

By ELAINE GLUSAC

Hotels aren't the only options for London this summer. Visitors can choose backyards and more.

Heads Up

For the Well Heeled, the $40,000 Rental

By MONICA DRAKE

If money is no object, rent a large home - or a castle.

 legend, achievement, Money no object, well-heeled

Q&A

11 Olympics, and Counting

By RACHEL LEE HARRIS

Want to get your photo taken with Apolo Ohno? Wonder what under-the-radar events insiders love? A veteran Olympic spectator shares his secrets.

36 Hours in East London

By JENNIFER CONLIN

Diverse shops, ethnic restaurants and cutting-edge clubs combine to produce the city's trendiest area.

Surfacing

Slide Show: A "Buzz" in Bermondsey

A 58,000-square-foot art space, a 95-story skyscraper and other attractions are sending a charge into this London neighborhood.

Choice Tables

Looking for the English on London Menus

By MARK BITTMAN

What, exactly, is English cooking, and why would you seek it out? Here are five restaurants that provide tasty answers.

Cultured Traveler

A Few Good Spots for a Spot of Tea

By JENNIFER CONLIN

Whether you opt for Pret-A-Portea or a "Tea-Tox," you can find tea with twist in London.

Overnighter

St. Ives, Where Art Meets the Ocean

By EVAN RAIL

Travel southwest from London, stop just before England ends, and you'll find St. Ives, a place that rewards everyone from surfers to diners to art lovers.

Slide Show: Choice Tables, London

Mark Bittman went hunting for English cooking in London. Here's a taste of what he found.

Slide Show: Electric East London

From fashion and flora to designers and drinks, you can find it here.

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Top-shelf art and a dramatic seaside setting lure visitors to remote St. Ives.

to make phone boxes more user friendly and 'relevant'

• • Red phone box leaves Devon for French twin village
    
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  • BT says quarter of phone boxes in Wales rarely used
    
    Wales / 24 March 20111929 - the K3, which was widely introduced. In 1936, designs were adapted to
    
    

    BT says quarter of phone boxes in Wales rarely used

    By Kevin Leonard BBC Wales News online

    The familiar K6 phone box design was created in 1936 and is still popular today

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    Almost a quarter of public phone kiosks in Wales make less than one call a month, latest figures show, but BT says it has no immediate plans to wield the axe.

    Public phone use has dramatically fallen in the past couple of years, with only 3% of adults saying they had used a BT payphone in the last month.
    At the same time, mobile phone ownership has soared to around 90% of adults and, with an Ofcom ruling last week likely to lead to cheaper calls, they have never been more affordable.
    Academics even suggest many young people view kiosks as some kind of museum piece and would as likely be seen in one as go out dancing with their parents.
    But despite the odds seemingly being stacked against them, reports of the humble payphone's demise are greatly exaggerated.
    More than 3,800 survive in Wales down from about 4,300 in 2008, when BT's last major review took place.
    

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    Phone box history

    • Telephone kiosks did not start to appear until the early 20th Century
    • The first standard public telephone kiosk was produced in concrete in 1920 - the K1.
    • A design competition was held which led to a new red design with a domed roof - the K2 - by British architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott.
    • The K2 was considered too costly and Sir Giles came up with a new successful design in 1929 - the K3, which was widely introduced.
    • In 1936, designs were adapted to create the most familiar red kiosk - the K6. It was introduced extensively around the country.

    BT says it has no pressing plans for another big review, although with each payphone costing on average £700 a year to maintain, economic pressures exist.

    Many politicians are willing to make the case for keeping phone boxes due to their social value.
    South Wales West AM Peter Black has spoken out in the past to save kiosks under threat.
    "I think the issue is that most people have mobile phones these days but there's large areas of Wales that don't have mobile phone coverage and the pay phone is a valuable safety net," he said.
    "If someone breaks down or is in any emergency and there's no signal, then the pay phone is a safety net."
    Payphones can also provide access to child and domestic abuse helplines - a vital service if the caller does not own a mobile phone or does not want to risk a call showing up on a bill.
    BT does admit it keeps a close eye on its payphones "because use has declined over the years".
    

    BT has tried to make phone boxes more user friendly and 'relevant'

     

    "They are providing a valuable service to the community and will continue to do so," said a spokesperson.
    "There are a lot of people out there who do use kiosks and who don't have mobile phones.
    "But their [use] is falling year on year and there's no suggestion that's going to stop."
    The spokesperson said BT was always looking at ways of making phone kiosks "relevant", with internet access in some and their use for advertising.
    Many communities are also keen to preserve them.
    The company has encouraged communities to adopt those that have been decommissioned with some used as mini libraries or art galleries.
    There is more than whiff of nostalgia about preserving phone boxes, particularly the red kiosks, as people recall their youth, possibly making calls to girlfriends or boyfriends.
    But communications expert Professor Robin Mansell, of the London School of Economics (LSE), said younger people may view them in a different light to their parents.
    "I think they have an iconic kind of meaning to people over a certain kind of age, in Britain particularly but everywhere," she said.
    "But I think the cultural priorities are changing quite radically for the younger people generally.
    "The notion that you can go to a public phone box will vanish."
    However, Professor Mansell said that before phone boxes were removed in rural or disadvantaged areas, a solution needed to be found to how people might raise the alarm in an emergency.
    "The question is really a policy matter. When the companies say it's too costly, we will take them out of service, policy makers need to look at the range of alternatives and agree to provide some degree of connectivity in an emergency."
    〔本報訊〕被稱為英國國寶的「K6型紅色電話亭」，是許多人對倫敦街頭的印象。最近英國電信集團（BT）宣布，將在最近公開出售60個「K6型紅色電話亭」，起標底價2千英鎊（約新台幣9.5萬元）。
    
    　「K6型紅色電話亭」是1936年由英國設計師史考特（Giles Gilbert Scott）打造，擁有75年歷史。「K6型紅色電話亭」最大的特色，莫過於全紅的金屬外框，讓電話亭看來相當立體、典雅，上頭鑲有明顯的皇冠標誌，且號稱隔音效果極佳。
    
    　在全盛時期，全英國約有7萬座「K6型紅色電話亭」，成為相當具有歷史地位的經典象徵，但是近代手機普遍化，讓傳統的電話亭漸漸失去實用性。
    
    　1980年代中期，英國電信集團曾經公開出售「K6型紅色電話亭」，隨後在1990年代進行大規模硬體、軟體設備升級，讓電話亭提供信用卡繳費、上網等便民服務，不過仍無法提升「K6型紅色電話亭」的價值。
    
    　目前全英國街頭大概只剩下1萬1千座「K6型紅色電話亭」，相隔25年後再次出售，預計能吸引不少收藏家搶標。 create the most familiar red kiosk - the K6. It was introduced extensively…

Picasso and Modern British Art

Tate explores Picasso's legacy

13 February 2012 Last updated at 16:37 GMT

More than 90 years after his first visit to London, a collection of Picasso's work is being exhibited at Tate Britain exploring his extensive legacy and influence on British art.

The show brings together more than 150 artworks, including paintings from key moments in his career such as Weeping Woman 1937 and The Three Dancers 1925.

The gallery believes Picasso and Modern British Art is also the first exhibition to trace the artist's rise in Britain as a figure of both controversy and celebrity.

at Tate Britain

The life-long connections Pablo Picasso had with Britain are the focus of a major new exhibition featuring more than 60 of his paintings. Head of a Man from 1913 (left), The Three Dancers from 1925 (centre) and Nude Woman in a Red Armchair from 1932 (right) are among the pieces on show at Tate Britain in London.

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   In Picasso and Modern British Art, the stylistic affinity between Picasso and specific British artists is shown by placing complimentary pieces in close proximity. The bold patterns of Pablo's 1908 work Vase of Flowers (left), for example, can clearly be seen to have informed The Tub by Scotland's Duncan Grant (right).

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On Location

In the British Countryside, a Well-Packaged Life

Andreas Meichsner for The New York Times

The interiors were redecorated to reflect how the two-bedroom house would have looked when it was built, in the early 1970s. More Photos »

By CAROLINE EDNIE

Published: April 25, 2012

HORSMONDEN, England

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Glass Houses in the Countryside

“IT’S really not a big house, but it feels infinite because you can look out over the garden and see up to three miles away,” Remy Blumenfeld said of his glass-walled home here. “It’s like being in the treetops and sleeping under the stars.” 

Mr. Blumenfeld, 46, a television producer, has owned the modernist villa since 1999. Designed by the British architect Michael Manser for a member of Parliament in 1969, the home, known as Capel Manor, sits on 23 acres of rolling Kentish countryside. 

So it’s no surprise that, although he has a house in London, Mr. Blumenfeld spends much of his time here, with his partner, Henryk Hetflaisz, 33, a photographer. 

“It’s a place we want to share with the people that we care about or want to get to know better,” Mr. Blumenfeld said. “In London, getting to know people is usually over a business lunch or supper, but often you don’t really get to know people that way. You get to make friends by inviting them to stay over a weekend.” 

The villa, however, had one major drawback: its size. “The house is too intimate,” Mr. Blumenfeld said, to share “with people that we barely know.”

The solution, he decided, was a guest pavilion, “something that echoed the original house, but that didn’t copy it.” 

Ewan Cameron, the Scottish architect he hired to design it, created a simple structure split down the middle by two concrete walls that formed a narrow passageway; on either side are a bedroom and bathroom contained in identical glass boxes. 

“The instinct was to create something light and sympathetic to the Michael Manser building,” said Mr. Cameron, who had been working in the Far East and “was in awe of the temples and gardens of Kyoto, Japan, and China’s Suzhou Gardens.” 

“There’s a level of consideration to the garden design and architecture there that I’d never seen before, a subtlety and softness to the relationship as well as an incredibly rigorous attention to detail and material,” he said. “This was the inspiration behind the design of the overhanging canopy roof and the relationship between the external decks and gardens.”

The pavilion took eight months to build. And when it was completed in September, for about £245,000 (or just under $400,000), it was the catalyst for another project. 

“We didn’t want to be the poor relations, while our guests were living in luxury,” Mr. Blumenfeld said. “We decided to effectively take our house apart and install up-to-date technology. We also added insulation, under-floor heating and a new zinc roof,” as well as a larger kitchen. 

In the process, the interiors were redecorated to reflect how the two-bedroom house would have looked when it was built, in the early 1970s. Furnishings include modern classics like an Eero Saarinen Tulip table and chairs and a 1971 red chaise longue by Verner Panton.

As Mr. Blumenfeld said, “There is something simple and optimistic about the ’70s.”

And now that everything is done, he added, he has a place where work and life can mingle.

“It’s not about physical space,” he said. “Home is much more about the place you share with the people you love.” 

He added: “In a way, the glass house with no walls could be seen a metaphor: A house is not about its walls, it’s about what you fill it with.”

Britain Slips Back Into Recession 英美學制

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educational institutions ［expenses］
教育機関［費］

an educational system
教育制度

educational inflation
教育インフレ（経営修士号や博士号などの学位の価値が相対的に下がった状態）.

2 教育的な, 教育に役だつ；（知らないことを）学べる

an educational experience
いろいろな事を学べる体験.

Newham Council accused of 'social cleansing' of tenants

By Iain Watson & Rebecca Keating BBC News

The Olympic Park sits in the borough of Newham - one of the poorest in London

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A London council has been accused of starting "social cleansing" in the capital by asking a Stoke-on-Trent housing association to take on up to 500 families on housing benefit.

Newham Council says it can no longer afford to house tenants on its waiting list in private accommodation.
The gap between market rents and the housing allowance is too big, it says.
But the association says such a move could mark the start of "thousands of needy people" being dumped elsewhere.
Labour MPs say the decision to seek accommodation outside London is proof that the government's policy of capping housing benefit is already "beginning to unravel".
Olympic effect Newham Council, which is Labour-controlled, is in the east of the city and will host this summer's Olympics.
It has written to the Brighter Futures Housing Association in Stoke, offering it the "opportunity" to lease homes to it.
The letter says the local private rental sector is beginning to "overheat" because of the "onset of the Olympic Games and the buoyant young professionals market".
It says the council can no longer afford to house tenants on its waiting list in private accommodation as the gap between market rents and the local housing allowance has become too great.
The council has been "forced to look further afield for alternative supply", it adds.
'Right-wing extremism' The Brighter Futures chief executive officer, Gill Brown, has not formally replied to Newham Council's offer but says she will not agree.

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Newham - along with other London councils - is under significant pressure”

Newham Council Spokesman

"I think there is a real issue of social cleansing going on," she said.

"We are very anxious about this letter which we believe signals the start of a movement which could see thousands of needy people dumped in Stoke with no proper plan for their support or their welfare.
"We have seen in the past relocation putting strain on other services because the medical, education and justice systems are unprepared for an influx of very needy people.
"The result was huge, unplanned pressure on local services, the collapse of already vulnerable neighbourhoods and the rise of divisive right-wing extremism.
"We believe that, if London boroughs are allowed to export their most vulnerable and challenging families to cities like Stoke-on-Trent, then exactly the same will happen again."
'So desperate' A spokesman for Newham Council said the government's decision to cap housing benefit payments at £400 per week for a four-bedroom home was "exacerbating the problem" of finding homes for low-income families.
"Newham - along with other London councils - is under significant pressure," the spokesman said.
"We are doing everything we can to ensure we have good quality, affordable housing which is fairly distributed.
"Alongside a number of other London councils, we are also exploring the option of working with housing associations outside the borough to house people with an immediate need in the private sector, when there is no other alternative."
Newham Council is offering to pay Brighter Futures 90% of the local housing allowance plus £60 per week.
Brighter Futures estimates the scheme could save Newham Council £5,250 a year for a family housed in a three-bedroom home.
The Labour MP for Westminster North, Karen Buck, says Newham Council's offer could be just the tip of the iceberg.

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An unplanned influx of Olympic exiles will do us little good”

Tristram Hunt Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central

"What is so worrying about the letter from Newham is not that this is Newham Council's fault but if a very poor borough in east London feels itself so desperate that it has to try and find accommodation as far away as Stoke, what is that telling us about demand?" she said.

"We know from London Councils that 88,000 households have private rents above the new limits for housing benefit and in theory these families were meant to find new homes in places like Newham.
"Obviously, even before the housing benefit cuts have really began to bite we have seen that this policy will unravel."
When the housing benefit cap was announced in 2010, London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "The last thing we want to have in our city is a situation such as Paris where the less well-off are pushed out to the suburbs."
He said he would "not accept any kind of Kosovo-style social cleansing of London".
'London's exiles' The Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, Tristram Hunt, says the rest of the country "certainly doesn't need the difficult-to-house cases London boroughs have had enough of".
"An unplanned influx of Olympic exiles will do us little good," he said.
"The 2012 Games are bringing huge riches into London. The least those boroughs could do is look after their poor and needy.
"We look forward to welcoming the flame from Stratford - but not east London's exiles."
Brighter Futures is calling on the Local Government Association to draw up a code of conduct for members to ensure that no homeless people are moved without the permission of the council in the new area.
It wants to ensure local councils have assessed whether public services can cope with new arrivals before families are moved.

23 April 2012 Last updated at 18:50 GMT

London Marathon: Runners' details accidentally shared

The details were available on the section in which commemorative medals could be ordered

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The home and email addresses of the 38,000 entrants to the London Marathon were accidentally published on the organisers' website, the BBC has discovered.

A number of high-profile celebrities and politicians were among those who had their personal details made public in the data protection breach.
The details were accessible all day to anybody logging on to the site.
Marathon organisers apologised and said the mistake had been rectified.
'Glitch corrected' BBC Sports News Correspondent James Pearce said organisers had been unaware of the security breach until they were alerted by the BBC on Monday evening.
The problem first came to light when a television presenter was contacted by a member of the public who had found her home address.

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Information Commissioner spokesman

The details were available on the section in which commemorative medals, with individual race times inscribed, could be ordered.

Nick Bitel, the chief executive of the London Marathon, said: "We apologise for this error, and are grateful to the BBC for bringing it to our attention.
"We immediately made sure that the glitch was corrected.
"We do not believe that this has led to a substantial number of individuals' details being accessed by members of the public."
Gordon Ramsay, Nell McAndrew and Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls were among those who took part.
Data Protection Act A spokesman for the Information Commissioner told the BBC they would "certainly" be launching an investigation.
He said: "This is something the Information Commissioner will need to look in to to see how it has come about.
"It's the reasons these things come about that determine the course of the investigation.
"Every case is different and we will certainly be making enquiries."
The Data Protection Act states that appropriate measures must be taken against accidental loss of personal data.
Under the act any breaches could be considered either a civil or criminal offence depending on the circumstances, the Information Commissioner's spokesman said.

這次男、女冠軍都被來自肯亞的參賽選手抱走。（歐新社）

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　馬拉松主辦單位昨日證實這項消息，他們表示，「我們當天已立即對死者家屬表達我們的關心，我們也致上最大的哀悼之意。」

　不幸猝死的克萊爾（Claire Squires）來自英國的列斯特郡，她在距離終點線只有1公里多的時，突然昏倒在地，經過緊急搶救後，回天乏術，她生前，還曾靠著跑馬拉松，替慈善機構 募捐了約2萬台幣，她的好友也紛紛在網路上悼念她，稱她是「天空中最閃亮的1顆星」。

North Parade Passage Bath, Sally Lunn

North Parade Passage Bath

Giclee print reproduction of 'Stories in Storeys' from Limited Edition Collagraph Print of North Parade Passage Bath including Sally Lunns by Jackie Curtis.

The original Collagraph blocks used a variety of materials including several floor clothes and a piece of sack.

The original print was too large for my press so it was produced on the drive with my neighbour's garden roller. Full size print also available please contact me for more info.

The print was produced for the 2009 'Bath Prize' a link to their site is contained in the 'Links' section and the Giclee print was printed by the organisers.

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A sweet, spongy, yeast cake, named after a girl who sold her tea cakes in Bath in the eighteenth century. In southern states of the USA, a variety of yeast and soda breads.

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Sally Lunn's is much more than a world famous tea and eating house in the centre of the wonderful city of Bath England. Our historic building is one of the oldest houses in Bath. Our kitchen museum shows the actual kitchen used by the young Huguenot baker Sally Lunn in Georgian Bath to create the first Bath bun - an authentic regional speciality now known the world over.
Sally Lunn's is open for morning coffee, lunch, afternoon tea, pre-theatre dinner and dinner. Menus offer historic refreshment based on the original Sally Lunn bun - still baked to a secret recipe - and rich in local cuisine and authentic historic dishes. We are a truly authentic English eating house serving regional English food - including our trencher dinner.
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lly Lunn

Crunchy, sugar-y top of Sally Lunn

Ingredients:
One 1/4-ounce (7 gram) package instant yeast
2 cups whole milk, heated to almost boiling, then cooled to lukewarm (about 110ºF)
4 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled slightly
4 cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon cardamom sugar (or regular sugar)
Cooking spray
Special Equipment: 12-cup Bundt pan (or tube pan of equivalent size)
Procedure:

1. Spray the Bundt pan with cooking spray and set aside.
2. Dissolve the yeast in the milk. Add the butter, flour, eggs, and salt, and beat with a wooden spoon until the batter is smooth.
3. Pour the batter into the greased Bundt pan and cover with plastic wrap. Set in a warm, draft free place for about 1 1/2 hours, or until the batter has doubled in bulk.
4. Preheat the oven to 450ºF.
5. Sprinkle the Sally Lunn with the sugar and bake for 20 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.
6. Cool in pan for 5 minutes, give a the pan a good rap on the counter, and invert onto a cooling wrack.
7. Serve warm with jam, honey, cheese, or any number of delicious savory or sweet accompaniments.

Cut Sally Lunn