title: Londons Hidden Corners, Lanes & Squares
author: Graeme Chesters
description: <span><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style=" " lang="EN-US">Author</span></strong></span><br /><span><br /></span><br /><br /><span><span style="&#13;&#10;mso-fareast-MS &quot;;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast" lang="EN-US">GraemeChesters is an experienced journalist, copywriter, non-fiction and t<span style=" Curious&lt;span style=" mso-spacerun:yes"=""> </span>and London's Secrets: Pubs &amp; Bars . Graeme is also a wine writer (andenthusiastic drinker!) and has written two wine books. He lives in Bexley in southeastLondon with his wife Louise.</span></span>
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  # And the Dead Spake
  
  
  ### E. F. Benson
  
  
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  By There is not in all London a quieter spot, or one, apparently,
  
  
  more withdrawn from the heat and bustle of life than Newsome Terrace.
  
  
  It is a cul-de-sac, for at the upper end the roadway between its two
  
  
  lines of square, compact little residences is brought to an end by a
  
  
  high brick wall, while at the lower end, the only access to it is
  
  
  through Newsome Square, that small discreet oblong of Georgian houses,
  
  
  a relic of the time when Kensington was a suburban village sundered
  
  
  from the metropolis by a stretch of pastures stretching to the river.
  
  
  Both square and terrace are most inconveniently situated for those
  
  
  whose ideal environment includes a rank of taxicabs immediately
  
  
  opposite their door, a spate of 'buses roaring down the street, and a
  
  
  procession of underground trains, accessible by a station a few yards
  
  
  away, sh