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...
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...
Wernher von Braun and the V2 missile 21/02/2026 donbrown 0 A couple of years ago I wrote a post about the V2 (Vergeltungswaffe, or ‘vengeance weapon’) that stands in the atrium of the Imperial War […] 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...
‘Hidden London’ beneath Clapham South 17/02/2026 donbrown 0 In the 30 years or so that I’ve been living in this part of Battersea I must have passed through Clapham south tube (my nearest […] 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...
London Pubs: the Seven Stars in Carey Street 07/02/2026 donbrown 0 To “find yourself in Carey Street” used to mean you were broke, because this is where the main Bankruptcy Courts were based in the late […] 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...
