Victoria’s Secret Garden – a hidden gem in Westminster
The long highway of Victoria Street has to be one of the most second rate walking routes in the whole of the city. There is […]
The long highway of Victoria Street has to be one of the most second rate walking routes in the whole of the city. There is […]
I don’t usually do much in the way of “what’s happening in London now” posts, a combination of thinking that there are plenty of other […]
It’s somehow absolutely typical of london that some of the closest neighbours to George Gilbert Scott’s huge Italianate Foreign Office building is a pair of […]
Look towards the Eye from St James’s Park (or vice versa), or look upriver from the Golden Jubilee Bridge and there appears to be a […]
WHAT: Henry Fawcett Memorial WHERE: Victoria Embankment Gardens (map) BY WHOM: Mary Grant WHEN: 1886 There are numerous late Victorian statues and memorials in Embankment […]
Another City church, another ancient crypt… St Olave’s Hart Street is one of the few churches to survive the Great Fire of 1666 (it was […]
A couple of months ago I got to look in the crypt of St Peter ad Vincula (“St Peter in chains”) the Chapel Royal within […]
Halfway up Regent Street, just before you get to Oxford Circus, is one of central London’s Apple Stores, purveyors of high tech electronic goods to […]
When Joseph Bazalgette created his marvellous (and still used) sewer system the 1860s, he pushed back the banks of the Thames and buried his main […]
The North Greenwich/Royal Docks cable car – sometimes called the ‘Dangleway’, but now officially rebranded the IFS Cloud Cable Car Experience – is another legacy […]
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