Map of London’s Churchill Locations
I’ve been adding a few more Churchill locations to my map (see below) as well as doing a bit of housekeeping and categorisation. You can […]
Stockwell’s concrete cathedral for buses
Fall asleep on a Go-Ahead bus and you might just be lucky enough to wake up in the depot – the soaring, concrete cathedral that […]
Westminster Abbey’s Hidden Highlights Tour
I am a jaded old cynic, a London Blue Badge Guide who has taken people round Westminster Abbey what, 200? 300 times? Pre-covid, some weeks […]
An Elizabethan Prisoner’s Graffiti
The Tower of London, famous though it is for prisoners, had no dungeons as such: the incarcerated would be held in rooms in different buildings […]
“Exquisite Pain” in St Bart’s
The church of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield is one of the jewels of London. A breathtakingly beautiful architectural gem that has occupied its […]
The Sutton Hoo treasure
In 1938 a Suffolk woman called Edith Pretty asked a local archaeologist Basil Brown (no relation unfortunately) to excavate a series of mounds that were […]
Wren’s Twice-Moved Temple Bar Gate
Hard by St Paul’s at the entrance to Paternoster Square, is Temple Bar gate. Like the Cathedral, this is the work of Sir Chirstopher Wren, […]
The Oldest Door in Britain
As you walk through a passageway that links the cloisters to the Chapter House in Westminster Abbey, you walk past a doorway that is generally […]
The Chapel of St John the Evangelist
One of the loveliest and most peaceful spaces in London is literally in the centre of one of the busiest. The Tower of London gets […]
2021 – the StuffAboutLondon year in review
Thanks very much for following the blog this year, and for coming on the virtual tours (and the handful of real life walks) that have […]