Articles by donbrown

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 […]

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The Algerian Coffee Stores – caffeinating London since 1887

22/09/2024 donbrown 0

I blush as I write this, but in over 40 years in London, yesterday was the first time I’ve ever bought anything in Old Compton […]

The Mysterious Panyer Boy of St Paul’s

17/09/2024 donbrown 0

When yu have sought the Citty Round, Yet still this is the highest Ground. August the 27 1688 Step out of the tube at St Paul’s […]

George Washington – one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived

12/09/2024 donbrown 0

So why does a statue of colonial rebel George Washington lord it over Trafalgar Square? And why is there also a bust of the first […]

Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

03/09/2024 donbrown 0

On the railings outside the Coram charity’s HQ in Bloomsbury is a white children’s mitten. Or, rather, what appears to be a child’s mitten, because […]