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Up on the Roof – the Walkie Talkie’s Sky Garden

01/12/2018 donbrown 0

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 […]

Urban Wine

01/12/2018 donbrown 0

A dozen or so years ago my father in law brought back a stick from his land in Sicily. It was about two feet long […]

The Ravens of the Tower of London

04/02/2018 donbrown 0

Just about everyone knows the legend of the Tower of London ravens; that should they leave the fortress then it and, by extension, the entire […]

The Lovely Clapham Common Bandstand

26/01/2018 donbrown 0

Oh for just a bit of the civic pride that built bandstands, and a wee bit of the sense of community that put on regular […]

More London pictures

19/01/2018 donbrown 0

Another wee selection of instagram snaps (also on flickr).

The Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey

11/01/2018 donbrown 0

Whenever I’m taking Americans around Westminster Abbey, I like to mention that when Columbus stumbled across the Americas, King Edward’s Chair (commonly known as the […]

The India Club

11/01/2018 donbrown 0

Dishoom does the ‘Indian Cafe’ experience very well indeed, and if you’re prepared to queue, serves some great tasting food and impressive cocktails. But if […]

Going ‘Behind the glass’ at the Churchill War Rooms

08/01/2018 donbrown 0

Already a huge hit with visiting Americans, the queues for the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum are only going to get longer with the […]

Chiappa “organ builders” at Eyre Street Hill in EC1.

17/12/2017 donbrown 0

Apparently they’ve been here since 1877, when this would have been the heart of London’s ‘Little Italy’, the area around Saffron Hill and the Clerkenwell […]

Michael Fagan and Buckingham Palace

14/07/2017 donbrown 0

There might be red-coated soldiers from the elite Guards regiments standing sentry around it (not to mention large numbers of coppers with Big Guns), but […]

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Up on the Roof – the Walkie Talkie’s Sky Garden

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