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12/02/2023 donbrown 0

When Joseph Bazalgette created his marvellous (and still used) sewer system the 1860s, he pushed back the banks of the Thames and buried his main […]

29/08/2022 donbrown 0

Apparently the expression “higgledy-piggledy” is not much known in the US; my use of the phrase to an American tour group as we passed a […]

15/03/2021 donbrown 0

If you ever have a tour of the Houses of Parliament it is in Westminster Hall where you meet your guide. This is the oldest […]

05/03/2020 donbrown 1

St Anne’s churchyard is a small patch of open ground at the Shaftesbury Avenue end of Wardour Street, Soho. Once the hang out of druggies […]

05/02/2020 donbrown 2

A short piece I did for Essential Surrey on Putney’s history, and some of the famous people associated with the area. Now a thriving, popular […]

25/06/2017 donbrown 0

As you wander around London you might see, either on an old sign, or painted up on a wall, the message “commit no nuisance”. There’s […]

19/11/2015 donbrown 2

[Update: the good news, if you read the comments below, is that Bradley’s is safe until at least 2018. So even I might get around […]