
Elsyng Chapel Tower on London Wall
Elsyng Spital tower, once the church for, in turn, a nunnery, a hospital, an Augustinian priory, a grand house, a college and the parish church of St Alphage’s.
Elsyng Spital tower, once the church for, in turn, a nunnery, a hospital, an Augustinian priory, a grand house, a college and the parish church of St Alphage’s.
All about the huge architectural sundial on Tower Hill, and the big mistake it makes about London’s history.
Above the Cannon Street doorway of the FT’s Bracken House is a remarkable astrological clock featuring the face of Winston Churchill.
Viewed purely on the facts and figures, the Thames is not one of the great rivers of the world. At around 215 miles (345km) long […]
Back up into the sky, this time with a trip up the neighbour of ‘The Beast’, The Lookout on the 50th floor of number 8 […]
At the top end of Strand opposite the Royal Courts of Justice is Devereux Court. Step off the main road along there and you enter […]
This is a wonderful, scholarly and fun read, an exploration of history and of landscape, as author and archeologist Duncan Mackay follows the Boudiccan uprising […]
All you need to know to catch the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace (whether or not you go with Alice).
To The London Archives in Clerkenwell for the small but (genuinely) perfectly formed ‘London in the Second World War’ exhibition. It runs until the end […]
To the Barbican on a glorious early spring day when the sky was blue and the sun was warm. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s brutalist City […]
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