About Me and this Blog

29/08/2022 donbrown 0

Welcome, thanks for discovering this blog and taking the time to find out more. It is a pretty random collection of posts of curiosities, museum […]

A Mysterious Mosaic in Wardour Street

02/09/2026 donbrown 0

The almost totally unrecorded mosaic on Flaxman Court, dedicated to an almost forgotten 19th century sculptor.

The Oldest Man in the World: the 152 year old Thomas Parr

22/08/2026 donbrown 0

Among the graves of kings and queens in Westminster Abbey, the memorials to military heroes of the 18th century, and close by the burials and […]

Book Review: The A-Z of Georgian London: John Rocque’s Maps

20/08/2026 donbrown 0

With a copy of John Rocque’s maps – his Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark, and what is known […]

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The People who Buried Nelson

14/08/2026 donbrown 0

A sunny lunchtime in July is obviously the perfect time to be staring into an undertaker’s window. I’m in Lamb’s Conduit Street, a rather chi […]

The Statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

17/07/2026 donbrown 0

We’ve met the prolific sculptor George Frampton before, when we looked at his memorial to the nurse Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans in 1915, […]

The Tower Hill Execution Memorial

15/07/2026 donbrown 0

Walk through Trinity Gardens from Tower Hill tube, towards the ticket offices for the Tower, and you will pass through the memorial to the merchant […]

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The Imperial War Museum’s Big Guns

14/07/2026 donbrown 0

About the large guns that sit in front of the IWM in Lambeth. From the WW1 battleships HMS Ramillies and Resolution.

David Hockney’s Westminster Abbey Stained Glass

15/06/2026 donbrown 0

On the day that the artist David Hockney died I was in Westminster Abbey pointing out, as I always do, the stained glass window that […]

When I Get Home – the Beatles’ Mayfair Pad

12/06/2026 donbrown 0

To Green Street in Mayfair, to see the only house where all four of the Beatles lived under the same roof.

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The ‘dead parrot’ statue in Greenwich is not what you think

14/05/2026 donbrown 1

The enigmatic artwork of Greenwich that most people get wrong. It’s definitely not a dead parrot.