St James Garlickhythe
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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Cleary Gardens – one of the City’s ‘Pocket Parks’
With so much noise and traffic in the City it’s sometimes nice to take a bit of time out. And that’s what places like Cleary […]
The City and the Guilds
Stand on Dowgate with your back to Cannon Street station and you can see the entrances to three of the halls of the City’s oldest […]
Dick Whittington’s Church
St Michael Paternoster Royal is one of 51 churches rebuilt by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire. St Michael is the archangel Michael – God’s […]
Postman’s Park – the Memorial to ‘Heroic Self-sacrifice’
A small bit of green space on the site of the churchyard and burial ground of St Botolph’s, Aldersgate, which opened in 1880. Over the […]
One New Change
The architect of One New Change, Jean Nouvel, described his building as a ‘stealth bomber’; it’s something very big – well over half a million […]
The iPlayer London collection
If you’re at all interested in the recent history and culture of London (and let’s face it, if you’re not you really have come to […]
Swimming in the Thames
Over on Kickstarter, the Thames Baths Project is within a whisker of getting its first stage of funding together to build a swimming pool on […]
Victorian London on Film
The very first moving pictures of London were taken by the cinematographic pioneer William Friese-Green in January 1889. He filmed Apsley Gate near Hyde Park […]
The Rosetta Stone – the key to understanding ancient Egypt
It’s a very dull piece of a granite-like stone, and the stuff that’s carved on it isn’t hugely interesting either – it’s to do with […]