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You’re likely to have been past this place several hundred times, because Apsley House is the big, honey-coloured building on the north side of Hyde […]
You’re likely to have been past this place several hundred times, because Apsley House is the big, honey-coloured building on the north side of Hyde […]
“Miss the Tower of London, if you have to, but don’t miss this” wrote Ian Nairn in his 1966 guide, Nairn’s London. A Nash terrace? […]
James Thornhill is sometimes called “the English Michelangelo”, although that’s less to do with a comparability of talent – he’s good, but he ain’t that […]
During the war the London County Council surveyors chronicled the devastation caused by enemy bombing on the capital. Hand colouring street level OS maps, they plotted the buildings […]
I’ve done a book review for the London Society on a new collection of writing about London buses and the bus network called ‘Bus Fare‘. […]
I’ve tried hard to like the Walkie Talkie, Rafael Vinoly’s skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful. The thing dominates the […]
A dozen or so years ago my father in law brought back a stick from his land in Sicily. It was about two feet long […]
Just about everyone knows the legend of the Tower of London ravens; that should they leave the fortress then it and, by extension, the entire […]
Oh for just a bit of the civic pride that built bandstands, and a wee bit of the sense of community that put on regular […]
Another wee selection of instagram snaps (also on flickr).
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