The Museum of London is a ten minute walk from here. Often that would be a recipe for never visiting it, on the grounds that it'll still be there next week and maybe I'll be less rushed next week. But I did go there once in April 2004 — I think there was a special exhibition I wanted to see on London's telecommunications — and I spent some time in their shop. I bought some gifts for my nieces, a copy of Iain Sinclair's Lights Out for the Territory
It does what it says on the cover. Four songs from Vera Lynn (yes, including those songs), three by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, one each by Arthur Askey (!), George Formby , Noël Coward and Flanagan & Allen, among others. I like the Anne Shelton songs, including I'll Be Seeing You, which I first came across when June Tabor revived it for her A Quiet Eye album.
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