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‘Crown to Couture’ at Kensington Palace

22/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet

15/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

Whitehall Court – London on the Loire

11/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

The Henry Fawcett Memorial, Embankment Gardens

10/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

The Crypt Chapel, St Olave’s Hart Street

02/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

The Tower of London Bombings

12/04/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

The Apple Store’s Victorian Mosaics

10/04/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

The York House Watergate and the 1st Duke of Buckingham

12/02/2023 donbrown 0

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 […]

Hang ‘em High: riding the East London ‘dangleway’

02/02/2023 donbrown 0

The North Greenwich/Royal Docks cable car – sometimes called the ‘Dangleway’, but now officially rebranded the IFS Cloud Cable Car Experience – is another legacy […]

green plaque commemorating first site of GC+CS

GCHQ, Bletchley Park and the ‘Golf, Cheese and Chess Society’

26/01/2023 donbrown 0

On a refurbished Edwardian office block at 13-15 York Buildings – just down from Strand on the way to Embankment Gardens – is a green […]

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‘Crown to Couture’ at Kensington Palace

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Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet

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Whitehall Court – London on the Loire

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The Henry Fawcett Memorial, Embankment Gardens

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The Crypt Chapel, St Olave’s Hart Street

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The Tower of London Bombings

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The Apple Store’s Victorian Mosaics

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The York House Watergate and the 1st Duke of Buckingham

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Hang ‘em High: riding the East London ‘dangleway’

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GCHQ, Bletchley Park and the ‘Golf, Cheese and Chess Society’

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