‘Crown to Couture’ at Kensington Palace
I don’t usually do much in the way of “what’s happening in London now” posts, a combination of thinking that there are plenty of other […]
Month: May 2023
Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet
It’s somehow absolutely typical of london that some of the closest neighbours to George Gilbert Scott’s huge Italianate Foreign Office building is a pair of […]
Whitehall Court – London on the Loire
Look towards the Eye from St James’s Park (or vice versa), or look upriver from the Golden Jubilee Bridge and there appears to be a […]
The Henry Fawcett Memorial, Embankment Gardens
WHAT: Henry Fawcett Memorial WHERE: Victoria Embankment Gardens (map) BY WHOM: Mary Grant WHEN: 1886 There are numerous late Victorian statues and memorials in Embankment […]
The Crypt Chapel, St Olave’s Hart Street
Another City church, another ancient crypt… St Olave’s Hart Street is one of the few churches to survive the Great Fire of 1666 (it was […]