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Locations from the Blog

29/08/2022 donbrown 0

A map! (Another map). I’ve tried to put the locations on the map referred to in the blog posts. Click on a location pin and […]

Piccadilly Sculptures – old(ish) and new(ish)

16/01/2025 donbrown 0

It’s often said that if you spend your time just looking at street level then you miss a huge amount of the art and history […]

The stuffaboutlondon review of 2024

01/01/2025 donbrown 0

Thanks to everyone who has visited the blog this year, passed comments, shared on Facebook or whatever. It’s been another record-breaking (for me) year, with […]

The “McGill Oak” Tree on Strand and the “Great Storm”

11/12/2024 donbrown 0

It has been estimated (by whom, I have no idea, but let’s roll with it), that London has more trees than people. That means more […]

Support this blog by buying books

11/12/2024 donbrown 0

For quite some time I’ve had links from book reviews and such like to Amazon, and in nearly ten years of blogging I’ve made the […]

Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain

08/12/2024 donbrown 0

Step onto Clapham Common from the eponymous tube station and looming in front of you is a large drinking fountain. By the German sculptor August […]

Palely loitering in Moorgate: the new John Keats memorial

05/12/2024 donbrown 0

Let’s face it, John Keats pretty much set the template for what we expect from Romantic poets – curly hair, brown eyes, a couple of […]

The Bankside Reconstruction of Drake’s ‘The Golden Hinde’

20/11/2024 donbrown 0

To the high seas! with tales of exploration, piracy and 1970’s ‘practical archeology’. We’re on Bankside, at St Mary Overy Dock. ‘St Mary Overy’ was […]

Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

19/11/2024 donbrown 0

Have you heard of the family Stein? There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein Gert’s poetry’s bunk Ep’s statues are junk And no one […]

‘Lost Gardens of London’ at the Garden Museum

30/10/2024 donbrown 0

To the Garden Museum in the old St Mary at Lambeth church (burial place of William Bligh, of ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ fame), hard by […]

The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch

24/10/2024 donbrown 1

As well as Marble Arch to the north, Park Lane has at its opposite end what is now called the Wellington Arch. This is just […]

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