The “McGill Oak” Tree on Strand and the “Great Storm”
It has been estimated (by whom, I have no idea, but let’s roll with it), that London has more trees than people. That means more […]
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Support this blog by buying books
For quite some time I’ve had links from book reviews and such like to Amazon, and in nearly ten years of blogging I’ve made the […]
Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain
Step onto Clapham Common from the eponymous tube station and looming in front of you is a large drinking fountain. By the German sculptor August […]
Palely loitering in Moorgate: the new John Keats memorial
Let’s face it, John Keats pretty much set the template for what we expect from Romantic poets – curly hair, brown eyes, a couple of […]
The Bankside Reconstruction of Drake’s ‘The Golden Hinde’
To the high seas! with tales of exploration, piracy and 1970’s ‘practical archeology’. We’re on Bankside, at St Mary Overy Dock. ‘St Mary Overy’ was […]
Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A
Have you heard of the family Stein? There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein Gert’s poetry’s bunk Ep’s statues are junk And no one […]
‘Lost Gardens of London’ at the Garden Museum
To the Garden Museum in the old St Mary at Lambeth church (burial place of William Bligh, of ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ fame), hard by […]
Come for a walk with me this winter
If you enjoy this blog and you’re keen to have a London tour with me, in January and February I’m planning on doing some ‘public’ […]
The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch
As well as Marble Arch to the north, Park Lane has at its opposite end what is now called the Wellington Arch. This is just […]
Days Out: The Wonderful Dover Castle
Hop on the fast train from St Pancras and you can be in Dover in a little over an hour. Grab a cab from the […]