The gardener's hut in Soho Square today, it was a beautiful day with no clouds at all but very cold and oppressively crowded everywhere. In an episode of the excellently hilarious Toast of London, Toast is summoned to a fencing match inside the hut, when he is inside the hut it's implausibly huge! I discovered that in the mid eighteenth century a very famous fencing master, Domenico Angelo, really did live in a house in Soho Square, so there is some satisfying logic to the association....
Graphic novel project, pages 9 & 10...
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