Locations from the Blog
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you enjoy this blog and you’re keen to have a London tour with me, in January and February I’m planning on doing some ‘public’ […]
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 […]
Hop on the fast train from St Pancras and you can be in Dover in a little over an hour. Grab a cab from the […]
Had you been motoring along the Fulham Road in the days before WW1 you could have pulled into number 81 and bought new tyres at […]
I blush as I write this, but in over 40 years in London, yesterday was the first time I’ve ever bought anything in Old Compton […]
When yu have sought the Citty Round, Yet still this is the highest Ground. August the 27 1688 Step out of the tube at St Paul’s […]
So why does a statue of colonial rebel George Washington lord it over Trafalgar Square? And why is there also a bust of the first […]
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