Going ‘Behind the glass’ at the Churchill War Rooms
Already a huge hit with visiting Americans, the queues for the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum are only going to get longer with the […]
Chiappa “organ builders” at Eyre Street Hill in EC1.
Apparently they’ve been here since 1877, when this would have been the heart of London’s ‘Little Italy’, the area around Saffron Hill and the Clerkenwell […]
Spring Offensive
This review dates from April 2017 and is the Clapham Omnibus production. It first appeared on the Essential Surrey website. April runs a guesthouse on […]
Don Giovanni
This review dates from November 2016 and refers to the Glyndebourne Company’s production at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. It first appeared on the Essential […]
A Room With a View
This review dates from October 2016. The production was seen at the Richmond Theatre. A Room With a View is a visually interesting, but wordy […]
Extravanganza Macabre
This review first appeared on the Essential Surrey website and is from August 2016. “Extravaganza Macabre” by Little Bulb Theatre at Battersea Arts Centre, is tremendous fun […]
Michael Fagan and Buckingham Palace
There might be red-coated soldiers from the elite Guards regiments standing sentry around it (not to mention large numbers of coppers with Big Guns), but […]
“Commit no nuisance”
As you wander around London you might see, either on an old sign, or painted up on a wall, the message “commit no nuisance”. There’s […]
Brick Lane’s Beigel Bake
Forget your hipster bars and street art tours, single estate coffee and craft beer, upcycled furniture and bleeding edge fashions, the most compelling reason to visit […]
Bar Italia, a Soho Institution
I’m having a coffee in the last of the Soho coffee bars. An absurd statement on the face of it; there are probably more places […]