The Church of St Mary Aldermanbury – London and Missouri
At the corner of Love Lane and Aldermanbury, round the back of the old City of London Police HQ, is a ‘pocket park’ that was […]
City of London
“Exquisite Pain” in St Bart’s
The church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield is one of the jewels of London. A breathtakingly beautiful architectural gem that has occupied its […]
The Temple Bar Gate
Hard by St Paul’s at the entrance to Paternoster Square, is Temple Bar gate. Like the Cathedral, this is the work of Sir Chirstopher Wren, […]
The Camels of Eastcheap
Eastcheap – from an old english word for market (and “east” to distinguish it from the original Westcheap, now ‘Cheapside’) – runs from Monument tube […]
A steam ship in the City of London
There are quite a number of ‘Holland Houses’ in the capital – the remains of a Jacobean country home in Holland Park, Kensington; a school […]
Up on the Roof – the Walkie Talkie’s Sky Garden
I’ve tried hard to like the Walkie Talkie, Rafael Vinoly’s skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful. The thing dominates the […]
The Lloyd’s Building
In 1978, the year after architect Richard Rogers’ Pompidou Centre opened in Paris, construction started on his first major London project, The Lloyd’s Building in Lime […]
Wren’s Monument to the 1666 Great Fire
Climb the 311 stairs today to the top of the Monument and the the 21st century City spreads out around you. To the north the […]
Christchurch Greyfriars and the 1666 Great Fire
In the post on the Firefighters’ Memorial we talked about the destruction caused by the Blitz – and Christchurch Greyfriars gives a hint of that […]
The Firefighters Memorial, St Paul’s
75 years ago George Orwell, the author of 1984 wrote, “as I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me”. He […]