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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

The Monument and the Shard

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 […]

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Rock ‘n’ Roll London – Packaging the Past

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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Hilda Hewlett – Pioneer Aviator

26/04/2016 donbrown 0

Men outnumber women on London’s Blue Plaques by over seven to one, so it was good to stumble across this in Vardens Road, just off St […]

Bonnington Square: Rus in Urbe with knobs on

25/04/2016 donbrown 0

There’s a truism that if you venture off the main street almost anywhere in London you’ll discover something new. I do this a lot, sometimes just […]

Bricking It – the Tate Modern Extension

20/04/2016 donbrown 0

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 […]