Strand
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Sep 5, 2026
speaker_16NARRATOR
He sold his business for twenty-five thousand pounds, and still in the prime of life, retired to a snug little villa on the banks of the Thames.
speaker_16NARRATOR
the business was converted into a limited liability company and the managing director may be said to be a product of the original business for it was a present of a guinea packet of stanley gibbons stamps that first whetted his appetite for stamp collecting and eventually for stamp dealing mr gibbons had for a great many years conducted his business from his private house The new broom changed all that and opened out in fine premises in the Strand, Western Cape, where the company now occupy the whole of one house and the greater part of the adjoining premises.
speaker_16NARRATOR
In every room, busy hands were at work all the day long, endeavoring to keep pace with a worldwide business which began with a few sheets in the corner of a chemist's shop window in the town of Plymouth.
speaker_16NARRATOR
and now looking back on the humdrum days of the beginnings of the stamp trade what opportunities do they not seem to have missed could they but have foreseen the present-day developments a few unconsidered trifles valued at a few pence in those days put away in the bottom drawer would to-day net a fortune young gibbons amongst his early purchases bought from a couple of sailors at plymouth for five pounds a sackful of triangular cape of good hope stamps a large portion being the rare so-called wood blocks with many of the errors described in the list of great rarities in another chapter those errors he disposed of at two shillings sixpence each they are now worth from sixty pounds to seventy-five pounds each and the ordinary wood-blocks which were so plentifully represented in that sackful are now catalogued at from fifty shillings to nine pounds apiece strange as it may seem those were the common stamps of those days and they are the rarities of to-day a well-known collection full of rare stamps of the value from five pounds to fifty pounds has been largely formed by the fortunate possessor out of stamps for which he paid two shillings per dozen just a little over twenty years ago a leading collector once conceived the idea of scouring the little visited country towns of spain for rare old spanish stamps and a most successful hunt he made of it he secured most valuable and unsuspected hauls of unused and used blocks and pairs of rare portuguese but before returning home he decided to treat himself to a trip to morocco and during that ill-fated extension of his tour he lost nearly the whole of his patient garnerings of rare spanish damps for during an inland trip some very unphilatelic bedouins swooped down on his escort in the desert and carried off the whole of his baggage he being some distance ahead of his escort escaped and brought home only a few samples of the grand things he had found and lost in all forms of collecting the hunt for bargains adds zest to the game and probably more so in stamps than in any other hobby not even excepting old china
Roger MelinNARRATOR
However, these lapses were only momentary, and did not interfere at all with the gay spirits of his companion, who, having found a friend in the midst of the loneliness of London, and his twin image in the person of that friend, was now pouring out his heart on every sort of subject, always returning, and with the regularity of a pendulum, to the fact of the likeness and the same question and statement.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
"What's this, your name?" "Rochester." "Well, 'pon my soul, this beats me." Presently the Bollinger finished, Jones found himself outside the Savoy with this new-found friend, walking in the gas-lit Strand, and then, without any transition rememberable, he found himself seated at dinner in a private room of a French restaurant in Soho.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Afterwards he could remember parts of that dinner quite distinctly.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
He could remember the chicken and salad and a rum omelette, at which he had laughed because it was on fire.
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Roger MelinNARRATOR
Death was instantaneous.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
From papers in possession of deceased, his identity has been verified as that of Mr. V.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
A. Jones, an American gentleman of Philadelphia, lately resident at the Savoy Hotel, Strand.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Jones stood with the paper in his hand, appalled.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Well, upon my soul, this beats me.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Presently the Bollinger finished, Jones found himself outside the Savoy with this newfound friend, walking in the gas-lit Strand, and then, without any transition rememberable, he found himself seated at dinner in a private room of a French restaurant in Soho.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Afterwards he could remember parts of that dinner quite distinctly.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
He could remember the chicken and salad and a rum omelette, at which he had laughed because it was on fire.
40 MINS LATER
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Before the station officials could interfere to save him, the unfortunate man had thrown himself before the incoming engine.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Death was instantaneous.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
From papers in possession of deceased, his identity has been verified as that of Mr. V.A. Jones, an American gentleman of Philadelphia, lately resident at the Savoy Hotel, Strand.
Roger MelinNARRATOR
Jones stood with the paper in his hand, appalled.
Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
At one time, Mistress Gooch was nursing a child of Mr. Ronald Barclay, a physician residing in the town, and he noticed the rhymes she sang and became interested in them.
Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
In time, he wrote them all down and made a book of them, which it is said was printed by John Worthington & Son in The Strand, London, in 1712 under the name of Ye Melodious Rhymes of Mother Goose.
Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
But even this story of Martha Gooch is based upon very meager and unsatisfactory evidence.
Barbara WedgeNARRATOR
The earliest English edition of Mother Goose's Melodies that is absolutely authentic was issued by John Newbery of London about the year 1760, and the first authentic American edition was a reprint of Newbery's made by Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1785.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
You have read of John, King of France, who was taken prisoner at the battle of Poitiers by the Black Prince, father of Richard.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
During his captivity he lived in considerable state in London at the Savoy Palace, which occupied the site of the present Savoy Hotel in the Strand.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
He brought his own painter from France with him, who painted his portrait, which still exists in Paris.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
This King John was the father of four remarkable sons, Charles V, King of France, with whom Edward III and the Black Prince fought the latter part of the Hundred Years' War, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, John, Duke of Berry, and Louis, Duke of Anjou.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Mr. Gibbons had for a great many years conducted his business from his private house.
speaker_6NARRATOR
The new broom changed all that and opened out in fine premises in the Strand, Western Cape, where the company now occupy the whole of one house and the greater part of the adjoining premises.
speaker_6NARRATOR
In every room busy hands were at work all the day long, endeavoring to keep pace with a worldwide business which began with a few sheets in the corner of a chemist's shop window in the town of Plymouth.
speaker_6NARRATOR
and now looking back on the humdrum days of the beginnings of the stamp trade what opportunities do they not seem to have missed could they but have foreseen the present-day developments a few unconsidered trifles valued at a few pence in those days put away in the bottom drawer would to-day net a fortune young gibbons amongst his early purchases bought from a couple of sailors at plymouth for five pounds a sackful of triangular cape of good hope stamps a large portion being the rare so-called wood blocks with many of the errors described in the list of great rarities in another chapter those errors he disposed of at two shillings sixpence each they are now worth from sixty pounds to seventy-five pounds each and the ordinary wood-blocks which were so plentifully represented in that sackful are now catalogued at from fifty shillings to nine pounds apiece strange as it may seem those were the common stamps of those days and they are the rarities of to-day a well-known collection full of rare stamps of the value from five pounds to fifty pounds has been largely formed by the fortunate possessor out of stamps for which he paid two shillings per dozen just a little over twenty years ago a leading collector once conceived the idea of scouring the little visited country towns of spain for rare old spanish stamps and a most successful hunt he made of it he secured most valuable and unsuspected hauls of unused and used blocks and pairs of rare portuguese but before returning home he decided to treat himself to a trip to morocco and during that ill-fated extension of his tour he lost nearly the whole of his patient garnerings of rare spanish stamps for during an inland trip some very unphilatelic bedouins swooped down on his escort in the desert and carried off the whole of his baggage he being some distance ahead of his escort escaped and brought home only a few samples of the grand things he had found and lost in all forms of collecting the hunt for bargains adds zest to the game and probably more so in stamps than in any other hobby not even excepting old china and as in other lines of collecting the bargain hunter must be equipped with the expert knowledge of the specialist if he would sweep into his net at bargain prices the unsuspected gems to be found now and again in the philatelic mart many a keen stamp collector turns his years of wide experience to good account as a bargain hunter and at least one innocent amateur is credited with netting a revenue which would make many a flourishing merchant green with envy many a match has probably been due to stamp collecting not long ago we were told of a young lady who wrote to an official in a distant colony for a few of the current stamps issued from his office the stamps were forwarded and a correspondence ensued There was eventually an exchange of photographs, and finally the official applied for leave, returned home, and married his stamp-collecting correspondent.
Steve AllenHOST
I bet it's all the angels again 'cause once they've spent so much money on them.
Steve AllenHOST
I quite like the ones in The Strand.
Steve AllenHOST
And the best Christmas tree is outside Charing Cross, uh, St- Charing Cross Station, Charing Cross Station, which is very nice.
Steve AllenHOST
And The Hippodrome will have all its trees all the way round the outside, which I love.