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 […]

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 […]

profile of the two imperial war museum guns

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.

greenwich statue of dead cockatoo

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.

red coated royal guards marching

From today’s State Opening of Parliament

13/05/2026 donbrown 0

Red coated guardsmen! The Household Cavalry! King Charles in the Australian State Coach! All the (to be honest, completely pointless) pomp and ceremony of a […]

Stumbling Across the ‘Tudor Pull’

27/04/2026 donbrown 0

Now I don’t generally work on London Marathon day (“the noise! and the people!”), but this year found me doing a tour of an almost […]

Benjamin Franklin’s Clapham Common Experiment

27/04/2026 donbrown 0

Today anglers sit by Mount Pond on Clapham Common, fishing for the carp that patrol its waters. They’re joined by the occasional heron, and ducks […]

Joseph Turner’s Covent Garden Birthplace

26/04/2026 donbrown 0

I mean, if an evening holds the prospect of beer, cheese, a bit of history and a spot or two of art*, then it would […]