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Brick Lane’s Beigel Bake

27/04/2017 donbrown 0

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

27/04/2017 donbrown 0

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 […]

Billingsgate – the early morning market

08/12/2016 donbrown 0

It’s five a.m. – 5 o’clock in the morning – in a misty Canary Wharf. You can’t see the top of 1 Canada Square and […]

The Development Plan for Greater London

24/11/2016 donbrown 0

Before Abercrombie and Forshaw, with their 1943 and 1944 plans for modernising London , with new ring roads, ‘zoned’ areas and satellite new towns, there […]

Curiocity – a very different type of guidebook

01/11/2016 donbrown 0

I’ve just done a review of Curiocity for the London Society (which you can read here). If you’ve not seen the book, go and do […]

Bye bye bonfire night

28/10/2016 donbrown 0

Over 400 years of tradition is coming to an end in London:- the public celebration of Guy Fawkes or Bonfire Night. Of course there are […]

Rogers' Lloyd's Building reflected in Foster's Willis Building

The Lloyd’s Building

25/10/2016 donbrown 1

In 1978, the year after architect Richard Rogers’ Pompidou Centre opened in Paris, construction started on his first major London project, The Lloyd’s Building in Lime […]

Wren’s Monument to the 1666 Great Fire

21/10/2016 donbrown 0

Climb the 311 stairs today to the top of the Monument and the the 21st century City spreads out around you. To the north the […]

Rock ‘n’ Roll London

20/07/2016 donbrown 0

One of the shocks of middle age is realising just how old some of the music is that one listens to. Like all right-thinking people, […]

Book review: Up in Smoke by Peter Watts

30/04/2016 donbrown 0

I have a terrible confession to make, one that will see me shunned by London society, if not drummed out of the city altogether: I […]

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