Vive l’Empereur! London’s oldest blue plaque
One of the underappreciated glories of London is the Blue Plaque scheme, the commemoration with 19” (48cm) ceramic discs of the places associated with history’s […]
Month: December 2023
“Justice and Strength”: the Smithfield Lion
Just across the street from where the new London Museum (nee Museum of London) is emerging in copper-covered glory from the old Poultry Market is […]
The London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park
In 1829 the Duke of Wellington, the then Prime Minister, fought a duel with the Earl of Winchelsea on Battersea Fields, an area of common […]
Victoria’s Campanile – the Western Pumping Station
As one rattles across the Thames in to Victoria station an elegant building appears on the Chelsea Embankment on one’s left. It’s a building on […]