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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 […]

What’s the meaning of “Commit no nuisance”?

25/06/2017 donbrown 0

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

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 […]

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