City of London

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 […]

Palely loitering in Moorgate: the new John Keats memorial

05/12/2024 donbrown 0

Let’s face it, John Keats pretty much set the template for what we expect from Romantic poets – curly hair, brown eyes, a couple of […]

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 […]

st paul's cathedral on the nla city model

The New London Model: Towering over the City

16/02/2024 donbrown 0

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 […]

the view from Horizon 22 - the viewing gallery at 22 Bishopsgate

Up on the roof (again): the ‘Beast’

18/01/2024 donbrown 0

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 […]

Londinium: a new place to see the capital’s Roman wall

14/11/2023 donbrown 0

Typical, you wait ages for a post about Roman London, then three come along at once. After the Mithraeum and the Billingsgate bath house, here’s […]

billingsgate roman bth house - caldarium hypocaust

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 […]

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 […]

The Mithraeum: The City of London’s Roman Temple

24/07/2023 donbrown 0

Under the Bloomberg European headquarters building in the City is the ‘London Mithraeum’, a glimpse into an obscure part of Roman London. Obscure not just […]

The Crypt Chapel, St Olave’s Hart Street

02/05/2023 donbrown 0

Another City church, another ancient crypt… St Olave’s Hart Street is one of the few churches to survive the Great Fire of 1666 (it was […]

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The Barbican Conservatory: The Hanging Gardens of EC1*

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Palely loitering in Moorgate: the new John Keats memorial

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The Mysterious Panyer Boy of St Paul’s

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The New London Model: Towering over the City

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Up on the roof (again): the ‘Beast’

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Londinium: a new place to see the capital’s Roman wall

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Londinium: the Billingsgate Roman Bath House

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Gluttony and grave robbing – Pye Corner in Smithfield

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The Mithraeum: The City of London’s Roman Temple

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The Crypt Chapel, St Olave’s Hart Street

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