Month: August 2023

St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”

28/08/2023 donbrown 0

Find your way to the High Holborn entrance to the roof terrace of the new ‘Post Building’ (the former Royal Mail West Central District Office), […]

The Teenage Queen Victoria

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

If I say “Queen Victoria” I’m guessing that the picture in your head is of the late-age monarch, ‘we are not amused’-era, dressed in mourning […]

St Mary’s Isn’t in the Way

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

One of the ways in which the city has been vastly improved over the past few years has been the claiming back of roadways into […]

The Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Victoria Embankment

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

WHAT: The Anglo-Belgian Memorial WHERE: Victoria Embankment (map) BY WHOM: Victor Rousseau (and Reginald Blomfield) WHEN: 1920 The casus belli for the British Empire’s declaration […]

In Praise of Custard Tarts

06/08/2023 donbrown 0

If pushed to choose humankind’s greatest inventions, I’d probably put the wheel second, because head and shoulders above everything has to be custard. Creamy, eggy, […]