Month: December 2025

buxton memorial fountain in the foreground, victoria tower in the background

More Neo-Gothic Splendour: the Buxton Memorial

15/12/2025 donbrown 0

In Victoria Tower Gardens, the little public park that runs from Parliament to Lambeth Bridge, stands a very ornate Victorian drinking fountain (now, sadly, disconnected […]

two of the four bronze lions by edwin landseer in trafalgar square

Landseer’s Lions in Trafalgar Square

09/12/2025 donbrown 0

Just as everyone ignores the warning on packets of cotton buds not to stick them in your ear, so the signs forbidding climbing on the […]

snip from the agas map of london with the london stone marked

Myths and Legends of the London Stone

07/12/2025 donbrown 0

Embedded into the wall of 111 Cannon Street, just over the road from the railway station, is a portland stone receptacle around a metre and […]