The New London Model: Towering over the City
Should you want to feel godlike, the entire capital spread out beneath your glorious presence, then the place to go is The London Centre, in […]
Should you want to feel godlike, the entire capital spread out beneath your glorious presence, then the place to go is The London Centre, in […]
At 278m (912’) and 63 storeys, the new(ish) office block at 22 Bishopsgate is the tallest building in the City of London, and second only […]
Typical, you wait ages for a post about Roman London, then three come along at once. After the Mithraeum and the Billingsgate bath house, here’s […]
Dig a hole in the City of London and a few metres down you will hit Londinium, the original city, because before the Romans there […]
Stroll up Giltspur Street towards Smithfield Market and look up to your left at the building on the corner of Cock Lane. In an arched […]
Under the Bloomberg European headquarters building in the City is the ‘London Mithraeum’, a glimpse into an obscure part of Roman London. Obscure not just […]
Another City church, another ancient crypt… St Olave’s Hart Street is one of the few churches to survive the Great Fire of 1666 (it was […]
If you’ve seen Herbert Mason’s photo ‘St Paul’s Survives’ – the dome of the cathedral still standing proud as the smoke of the Blitz rises […]
Fight your way through the crowds surrounding the Tower of London and you might just make it through to one of London’s oldest churches. All […]
At the corner of Love Lane and Aldermanbury, round the back of the old City of London Police HQ, is a ‘pocket park’ that was […]
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