Piccadilly Sculptures – old(ish) and new(ish)
It’s often said that if you spend your time just looking at street level then you miss a huge amount of the art and history […]
It’s often said that if you spend your time just looking at street level then you miss a huge amount of the art and history […]
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 […]
According to etymologists, the word ‘charing’ seems to come from the old English – “cerring”- meaning a bend, hence ‘charing’ appearing on many old maps, […]
If it’s possible to feel sorry for a pile of stones, the Marble Arch is probably deserving of sympathy. Like a Hollywood megastar now scratching […]
Trains from Clapham Junction to Waterloo generally stop at Vauxhall, and whenever on the service I look at the passengers getting on or off at […]
Should you want to feel godlike, the entire capital spread out beneath your glorious presence, then the place to go is The London Centre, in […]
At 278m (912’) and 63 storeys, the new(ish) office block at 22 Bishopsgate is the tallest building in the City of London, and second only […]
In 1829 the Duke of Wellington, the then Prime Minister, fought a duel with the Earl of Winchelsea on Battersea Fields, an area of common […]
As one rattles across the Thames in to Victoria station an elegant building appears on the Chelsea Embankment on one’s left. It’s a building on […]
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 […]
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