St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”
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), […]
Month: August 2023
The Teenage Queen Victoria
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
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
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
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, […]