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The York House Watergate and the 1st Duke of Buckingham

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 […]

Hang ‘em High: riding the East London ‘dangleway’

02/02/2023 donbrown 0

The North Greenwich/Royal Docks cable car – sometimes called the ‘Dangleway’, but now officially rebranded the IFS Cloud Cable Car Experience – is another legacy […]

green plaque commemorating first site of GC+CS

GCHQ, Bletchley Park and the ‘Golf, Cheese and Chess Society’

26/01/2023 donbrown 0

On a refurbished Edwardian office block at 13-15 York Buildings – just down from Strand on the way to Embankment Gardens – is a green […]

StuffAboutLondon: 2022 in review

31/12/2022 donbrown 0

A Happy New Year to you all, and thanks for supporting this blog. The year past has seen record numbers of visitors and page views, […]

The Billy Fiske Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral

31/12/2022 donbrown 0

Among the 28,000 names listed in the ‘Roll of Honor’ in the American Memorial Chapel in St Paul’s will be that of William Meade Lindsley […]

The Riddle of the (Embankment) Sphinx

15/12/2022 donbrown 0

As an adventure in Google, in maps, in diving down rabbit holes, my plan to post up a photo I took of one of the […]

the 1655 carved sign above the old gateway to tothill bridewell

The Supreme Court and Tothill House of Correction

03/12/2022 donbrown 0

On the south west corner of Parliament Square, directly over the road from Westminster Abbey, is the Supreme Court building. The final court of appeal […]

The Citadel – Central London’s real wartime bunker

16/11/2022 donbrown 0

Squatting next to the elegant Queen Anne revival of the Old Admiralty Building (and more on that at some point) on the north side of […]

A Visit to Bow Street Police Museum

06/11/2022 donbrown 0

On 14 July 2006 the magistrates’ court opposite the Royal Opera House on Bow Street tried its final cases before being closed and redeveloped as […]

The Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge

26/10/2022 donbrown 0

In a bomb-proof concrete bunker 60 feet below the ground of what was once RAF Uxbridge is one of the most important sites in 20th […]

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The York House Watergate and the 1st Duke of Buckingham

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StuffAboutLondon: 2022 in review

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The Billy Fiske Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral

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