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RUDYARD KIPLING (1882-1956) Author 43 VILLIERS STREET, LONDON WC2 “I could look out of my window through the fanlight of Gatti’s Music-Hall entrance, across the street, almost on to its stage. The Charing Cross trains rumbled through my dreams on one side, the boom of the Strand on the other, while, before my windows, Father Thames under the Shot Tower walked up and down with his traffic.” (Rudyard Kipling) Now called Kipling House in honour of the author of such classics as The Jungle Book and the Just So stories and not, as told to me for the price of a cup of tea by one of the very reliable people who love the area so much that they can’t bear to go home and so sleep nightly in local doorways, named by a developer in the 1980s with a penchant for exceedingly good cakes.