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Londinium: the Billingsgate Roman Bath House

14/11/2023 donbrown 0

Dig a hole in the City of London and a few metres down you will hit Londinium, the original city, because before the Romans there […]

All Hail the Sacred Dung Beetle!

12/11/2023 donbrown 0

When Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, sold his collection of antiquities to the British Museum in 1816, the museum acquired not only his once […]

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Contemplating the Infinite in the British Museum

09/11/2023 donbrown 0

In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, the Total Perspective Vortex gives “one momentary glimpse of the size of the entire infinity of creation […]

Leake Street – London’s Street Art Tunnel

09/11/2023 donbrown 0

I feel almost embarrassed to admit that I’m not a huge fan of ‘street art’. One can admire the draughtsmanship, say, or the use of […]

Gluttony and grave robbing – Pye Corner in Smithfield

21/10/2023 donbrown 0

Stroll up Giltspur Street towards Smithfield Market and look up to your left at the building on the corner of Cock Lane. In an arched […]

Albert Bridge: “A temporary gangway flung across the river”

21/10/2023 donbrown 0

One of my all time great London moments was a late summer evening about 30 years ago when I was walking home from a meeting […]

The Blue Bridge in St James’s Park

03/10/2023 donbrown 0

It’s the platform for a trillion photos – to the west is Buckingham Palace, framed by trees, and look east to see Horseguards, the London […]

Henry VII, Ted Lasso, and the Richmond greyhounds

24/09/2023 donbrown 1

Henry Tudor, had a pretty tenuous claim on the English throne. His mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a great granddaughter of John of Gaunt (third son […]

Prince Albert’s Mega-kitsch Memorial

06/09/2023 donbrown 0

Of course the damn thing is utterly absurd. Every criticism of high victoriana – over-sentimental, over-decorated, over-elaborate to the point of fussy, over size – […]

St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”

28/08/2023 donbrown 0

Find your way to the High Holborn entrance to the roof terrace of the new ‘Post Building’ (the former Royal Mail West Central District Office), […]

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Londinium: the Billingsgate Roman Bath House

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Contemplating the Infinite in the British Museum

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Leake Street – London’s Street Art Tunnel

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Gluttony and grave robbing – Pye Corner in Smithfield

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Albert Bridge: “A temporary gangway flung across the river”

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The Blue Bridge in St James’s Park

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Henry VII, Ted Lasso, and the Richmond greyhounds

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Prince Albert’s Mega-kitsch Memorial

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St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”

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