The Lovely Clapham Common Bandstand
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 […]
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More London pictures
Another wee selection of instagram snaps (also on flickr).
The Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey
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
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
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.
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
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 […]
“Commit no nuisance”
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 […]
Brick Lane’s Beigel Bake
Forget your hipster bars and street art tours, single estate coffee and craft beer, upcycled furniture and bleeding edge fashions, the most compelling reason to visit […]
Bar Italia, a Soho Institution
I’m having a coffee in the last of the Soho coffee bars. An absurd statement on the face of it; there are probably more places […]