Stuff About London

The Wondrous Pelicans of St James’s Park

22/08/2022 donbrown 0

Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!His bill holds more than his belican.He takes in his beakFood enough for a week.But I’ll be darned if […]

The South Bank Lion

20/08/2022 donbrown 0

For the past several months I’ve been taking groups of cruise passengers on a Winston Churchill tour – five days encompassing Chartwell, Bletchley, Blenheim, the […]

An American Patriot?: Benedict Arnold in London

18/08/2022 donbrown 0

Americans are genuinely surprised by how little the Brits know or, indeed, care about what they call the Revolutionary War and what we call the […]

The American Memorial Chapel, St Paul’s

22/06/2022 donbrown 0

If you’ve seen Herbert Mason’s photo ‘St Paul’s Survives’ – the dome of the cathedral still standing proud as the smoke of the Blitz rises […]

The crypt museum in All Hallows by the Tower

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Fight your way through the crowds surrounding the Tower of London and you might just make it through to one of London’s oldest churches. All […]

no pasaran the international brigades memorial in jubilee gardens london

No Pasaran! The Jubilee Gardens Memorial

22/06/2022 donbrown 0

The British and other foreign fighters travelling to Ukraine to resist Putin’s invasion are an echo of 85 years ago, some 35,000 non-Spaniards (2,500 from […]

The Church of St Mary Aldermanbury – London and Missouri

21/05/2022 donbrown 0

At the corner of Love Lane and Aldermanbury, round the back of the old City of London Police HQ, is a ‘pocket park’ that was […]

the statue of clive of india by robert tweed

The Statue of Robert Clive – ‘Clive of India’

10/04/2022 donbrown 0

WHAT: Statue of Robert Clive WHERE: Clive Steps, King Charles Street, Whitehall (map) BY WHOM: Robert Tweed WHEN: 1912

Six less than obvious tales from the Churchill War Rooms

07/04/2022 donbrown 1

I’ve done so many tours of the Churchill War Rooms recently (né Cabinet War Rooms, né Central War Room) that I’m half-expecting them to give […]

Recent Reading – books about Winston Churchill

19/03/2022 donbrown 0

I’m about to start several tours for (mainly) Americans who are following in the footsteps of Winston Churchill. We’ll be doing Chartwell, Blenheim, Bletchley Park, […]

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The Wondrous Pelicans of St James’s Park

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No Pasaran! The Jubilee Gardens Memorial

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Recent Reading – books about Winston Churchill

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