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Book Review | Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

[This review was first published on The London Society website in February 2022] As a London Blue Badge Guide I take Americans around London – the Tower, […]

Book Review | High Buildings, Low Morals by Rob Baker

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

[This review was first published on The London Society website in November 2017] Fans of Rob Baker’s blog ‘Another Nickel in the Machine‘ and his […]

Book Review | Vic Keegan’s Lost London

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

[This review was first published on The London Society Website in February 2021] Followers of the OnLondon twitter feed will know that every week, among the pieces […]

Book Review | Bus Fare by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr

23/07/2023 donbrown 0

Bus Fare: Collected Writings on London’s Most Loved Means of Transport by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr, published by AA Publishing. [This review was first published […]

equestrian statue of ferdinand foch by george malissard

Equestrian Statue of Ferdinand Foch, Grosvenor Gardens

15/07/2023 donbrown 0

WHAT: Ferdinand Foch WHERE: Lower Grosvenor Gardens (map) BY WHOM: Georges Malissard WHEN: 1930 Within the (slightly grotty) public space of Lower Grosvenor Gardens, facing […]

Murder in the Abbey

15/07/2023 donbrown 0

One of the great things about Westminster Abbey is that it is almost impossible to tire of the place. Yes, it can be a bit […]

Victoria’s Secret Garden – a hidden gem in Westminster

11/06/2023 donbrown 0

The long highway of Victoria Street has to be one of the most second rate walking routes in the whole of the city. There is […]

‘Crown to Couture’ at Kensington Palace

22/05/2023 donbrown 0

I don’t usually do much in the way of “what’s happening in London now” posts, a combination of thinking that there are plenty of other […]

Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet

15/05/2023 donbrown 0

It’s somehow absolutely typical of london that some of the closest neighbours to George Gilbert Scott’s huge Italianate Foreign Office building is a pair of […]

Whitehall Court – London on the Loire

11/05/2023 donbrown 0

Look towards the Eye from St James’s Park (or vice versa), or look upriver from the Golden Jubilee Bridge and there appears to be a […]

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