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December 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 189 Holloway Road
We rented it for a start – a small house on Holloway Road and a piece of history. Old George, who lived a few houses down and whose father had famously lived well past a hundred, told me that Winston McCarthy had grown up in our house and it had also been a shop at […]Archive
November 22, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 86 Peter McLeavey
He never seemed to age. From the first moment I met him in 1980 to the last time I saw him. He was always a constant yet always so obtuse with his deeply held views and his love of art. Whenever I went to see him in his gallery we always talked about something I […]Archive
November 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 32 The Blood Group
In 1984 when I became a father for the first time I rediscovered comics. We were living then in a huge warehouse with a big Dr Strange window down one end and it seemed appropriate. They had come a long way since I had read them as a kid in the 60s – there were […]Archive
July 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman