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In the Clink

18/04/2016 donbrown 0

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

06/04/2016 donbrown 0

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

15/03/2016 donbrown 0

Some snaps from a walk past the National Theatre and RFH yesterday afternoon

London Postcodes – more exciting than you think

08/03/2016 donbrown 0

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

07/03/2016 donbrown 0

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

25/01/2016 donbrown 0

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

19/11/2015 donbrown 2

[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

07/10/2015 donbrown 0

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

07/10/2015 donbrown 1

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 […]

St James Garlickhythe

09/09/2015 donbrown 0

With the current building works going on around it, the approach to St James’s is now down Garlick Hill, an indication – along with the church’s […]

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In the Clink

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