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22 Farm Street, Mayfair – a tudorbethan house of history

10/10/2025 donbrown 0

The much-photographed Farm House in Mayfair – residents include Wallis Simpson, Gloria Swanson and JFK (possibly).

The Queen Empress with the Dodgy Nose

01/08/2025 donbrown 0

It’s another of those places that is packed with tourists (particularly when there is a Changing of the Guard), but which Londoners would avoid as […]

The Egregious Error of the Tower Hill Sundial

26/05/2025 donbrown 0

All about the huge architectural sundial on Tower Hill, and the big mistake it makes about London’s history.

Brendan Bracken and the Churchill Clock

20/05/2025 donbrown 0

Above the Cannon Street doorway of the FT’s Bracken House is a remarkable astrological clock featuring the face of Winston Churchill.

a view from the lookout viewing gallery of tower bridge

Up On the Roof (one more time) from The Lookout

18/05/2025 donbrown 0

Back up into the sky, this time with a trip up the neighbour of ‘The Beast’, The Lookout on the 50th floor of number 8 […]

The Barbican Conservatory: The Hanging Gardens of EC1*

10/03/2025 donbrown 0

To the Barbican on a glorious early spring day when the sky was blue and the sun was warm. Chamberlin, Powell and Bon’s brutalist City […]

The Bright Red London Telephone Box

21/02/2025 donbrown 0

A redundant 20th century artefact, repurposed for the tourist economy. But enough about me, let’s talk about phone boxes. Go to Parliament Square and you […]

Piccadilly Sculptures – old(ish) and new(ish)

16/01/2025 donbrown 0

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 […]

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 […]

The Charing Cross: Victorian Medievalism

18/05/2024 donbrown 0

According to etymologists, the word ‘charing’ seems to come from the old English – “cerring”- meaning a bend, hence ‘charing’ appearing on many old maps, […]

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22 Farm Street, Mayfair – a tudorbethan house of history

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