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 […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
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 […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
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 […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
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 […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
The Mystery of the Reformers’ Oak 17/04/2026 donbrown 0 At a confluence of footpaths in the NE corner of Hyde Park, not too far from Marble Arch, is a circular mosaic that marks the […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
In Praise of the National Portrait Gallery 15/04/2026 donbrown 0 These last few weeks I’ve spent quite a bit of time in the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) prepping for a tour for a small group. […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
The Lloyd George Statue in Parliament Square 14/04/2026 donbrown 0 WHAT: David Lloyd George WHERE: Parliament Square (map) BY WHOM: Glynn Williams WHEN: 2007 Back when I was involved with the London Society we ran […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
Days Out: Chartwell – Churchill’s Country House 12/04/2026 donbrown 0 To Kent (again), close to the village of Westerham – birthplace of James Wolfe of Quebec – to visit Chartwell, the country of home of […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
Marylebone’s Memorial to a WW2 Hero 12/04/2026 donbrown 0 WHAT: The Wallenberg Monument WHERE: Great Cumberland Place (map) BY WHOM: Philip Jackson WHEN: 1997 Walk a couple of hundred metres north of the Marble […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
All Aboard! the splendid ‘Mail Rail’ 28/02/2026 donbrown 0 Down into another tunnel for a trip on one of the capital’s less well known bits of the transport network – the Postal Museum’s ‘Mail […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
Unpersuaded: the Jane Austen Experience 28/02/2026 donbrown 0 To the opening of the new London version of the Jane Austen Experience at 11 John Princes Street, just round the corner from Oxford Circus. […] Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email MoreShare on Tumblr Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Print (Opens in new window) Print Post Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads Like this:Like Loading...
