statues

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.

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 […]

Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain

08/12/2024 donbrown 0

Step onto Clapham Common from the eponymous tube station and looming in front of you is a large drinking fountain. By the German sculptor August […]

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 […]

Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

19/11/2024 donbrown 0

Have you heard of the family Stein? There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein Gert’s poetry’s bunk Ep’s statues are junk And no one […]

The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch

24/10/2024 donbrown 1

As well as Marble Arch to the north, Park Lane has at its opposite end what is now called the Wellington Arch. This is just […]

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 […]

George Washington – one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived

12/09/2024 donbrown 0

So why does a statue of colonial rebel George Washington lord it over Trafalgar Square? And why is there also a bust of the first […]

Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

03/09/2024 donbrown 0

On the railings outside the Coram charity’s HQ in Bloomsbury is a white children’s mitten. Or, rather, what appears to be a child’s mitten, because […]

soho square black and white half timbered hut

Soho Square, Ancient and Modern(ish)

08/08/2024 donbrown 0

There is an ancient hut in the centre of Soho Square, a half-timbered affair with beams that sag and bow. It gives the impression of […]

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The Egregious Error of the Tower Hill Sundial

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Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A

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The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch

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The Mysterious Panyer Boy of St Paul’s

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George Washington – one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived

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Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

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