Bricking It – the Tate Modern Extension
Step out of the back door of the Blue Fin Building (as I did this morning) and rising up in front of you is the […]
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In the Clink
In London, the old Victorian prisons are just there, an almost unnoticed background to everyday life; Wandsworth is over the road from my local garden […]
Getting the Blue Badge
Well, I finally went and actually did it and passed the exams to be a fully-fledged London Blue Badge Guide. That means I can now […]
A stroll along the South Bank
Some snaps from a walk past the National Theatre and RFH yesterday afternoon
London Postcodes – more exciting than you think
Postcodes! Now there’s a topic to get the blood racing. It was sparked by seeing the sign above, with “W14” tagged onto the original street sign. […]
The Lewis Chess Pieces in the British Museum
One of the most famous of the early medieval exhibits from the museum is the Lewis chessmen. 93 separate pieces, in a variety of sizes, […]
Westminster Abbey
The blog has been a bit neglected over the past few months as the work level for my London Blue Badge course has ramped up, […]
Bradley’s Spanish Bar
[Update: the good news, if you read the comments below, is that Bradley’s is safe until at least 2018. So even I might get around […]
Christchurch Greyfriars and the 1666 Great Fire
In the post on the Firefighters’ Memorial we talked about the destruction caused by the Blitz – and Christchurch Greyfriars gives a hint of that […]
The Firefighters Memorial, St Paul’s
75 years ago George Orwell, the author of 1984 wrote, “as I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me”. He […]