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‘Hidden London’ beneath Clapham South

17/02/2026 donbrown 0

In the 30 years or so that I’ve been living in this part of Battersea I must have passed through Clapham south tube (my nearest […]

Book Review: Old London Bridge by Patricia Pierce

28/01/2026 donbrown 0

Standing for more than 600 years, old London Bridge was the longest inhabited stone bridge in Europe, a high street, a processional route, a gateway […]

ribbons on a red metal gate. The shard in the background

Cross Bones Graveyard and the Outcast Dead

09/01/2026 donbrown 0

Across Southwark Street, a few hundred metres from the insanely busy Borough Market, is a little oasis of calm and mortality called the Crossbones Graveyard. […]

a view of westminster's jewel tower from college green

Westminster’s Medieval Jewel Tower

02/09/2025 donbrown 0

Well, I’m pleased that I finally got around to visiting the 14th century Jewel Tower, one of the last remnants of the old Palace of […]

The Brewery Workers’ Attack on the ‘Hyena of Brescia’

01/08/2025 donbrown 0

Close to where The Anchor pub stands on Bankside there used to be a huge brewery (known as ‘The Anchor Brewery’) operated by the firm […]

elysyng spital tower in the city of london

Elsyng Chapel Tower on London Wall

28/05/2025 donbrown 0

Elsyng Spital tower, once the church for, in turn, a nunnery, a hospital, an Augustinian priory, a grand house, a college and the parish church of St Alphage’s.

‘Lost Gardens of London’ at the Garden Museum

30/10/2024 donbrown 0

To the Garden Museum in the old St Mary at Lambeth church (burial place of William Bligh, of ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ fame), hard by […]

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 […]

cover of vic keegan's lost london 2 book

Book Review | Vic Keegan’s Lost London 2

08/06/2024 donbrown 0

A coffee in the Onion Garden with the inestimable Vic Keegan – journalist, oenologist, poet and historian of London. His ‘Lost London’ column ran weekly […]

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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