Month: May 2023

‘Crown to Couture’ at Kensington Palace

22/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet

15/05/2023 donbrown 0

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

11/05/2023 donbrown 0

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

10/05/2023 donbrown 0

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

02/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]