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Stockwell’s concrete cathedral for buses

08/02/2022 donbrown 0

Fall asleep on a Go-Ahead bus and you might just be lucky enough to wake up in the depot – the soaring, concrete cathedral that […]

Westminster Abbey’s Hidden Highlights Tour

08/02/2022 donbrown 0

I am a jaded old cynic, a London Blue Badge Guide who has taken people round Westminster Abbey what, 200? 300 times? Pre-covid, some weeks […]

An Elizabethan Prisoner’s Graffiti

07/02/2022 donbrown 0

The Tower of London, famous though it is for prisoners, had no dungeons as such: the incarcerated would be held in rooms in different buildings […]

“Exquisite Pain” in St Bart’s

07/02/2022 donbrown 0

The church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield is one of the jewels of London. A breathtakingly beautiful architectural gem that has occupied its […]

The Sutton Hoo treasure

01/02/2022 donbrown 0

In 1938 a Suffolk woman called Edith Pretty asked a local archaeologist Basil Brown (no relation unfortunately) to excavate a series of mounds that were […]

Wren’s Twice-Moved Temple Bar Gate

26/01/2022 donbrown 0

Hard by St Paul’s at the entrance to Paternoster Square, is Temple Bar gate. Like the Cathedral, this is the work of Sir Chirstopher Wren, […]

The Oldest Door in Britain

08/01/2022 donbrown 0

As you walk through a passageway that links the cloisters to the Chapter House in Westminster Abbey, you walk past a doorway that is generally […]

The Chapel of St John the Evangelist

28/12/2021 donbrown 0

One of the loveliest and most peaceful spaces in London is literally in the centre of one of the busiest. The Tower of London gets […]

2021 – the StuffAboutLondon year in review

21/12/2021 donbrown 0

Thanks very much for following the blog this year, and for coming on the virtual tours (and the handful of real life walks) that have […]

National Covid Memorial Wall

22/11/2021 donbrown 0

Along the Albert Embankment wall of St Thomas’ Hospital, directly over the Thames to the Houses of Parliament is an incredible piece of public guerrilla […]

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