Articles by donbrown

The “McGill Oak” Tree on Strand and the “Great Storm”

11/12/2024 donbrown 0

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 […]

Support this blog by buying books

11/12/2024 donbrown 0

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 […]

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Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain

08/12/2024 donbrown 0

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

05/12/2024 donbrown 0

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’

20/11/2024 donbrown 0

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 […]

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Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

19/11/2024 donbrown 0

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

30/10/2024 donbrown 0

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 […]

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The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch

24/10/2024 donbrown 1

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

24/10/2024 donbrown 0

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 […]

South Kensington’s Michelin Man

23/10/2024 donbrown 0

Had you been motoring along the Fulham Road in the days before WW1 you could have pulled into number 81 and bought new tyres at […]