Billingsgate – the early morning market
It’s five a.m. – 5 o’clock in the morning – in a misty Canary Wharf. You can’t see the top of 1 Canada Square and […]
The Development Plan for Greater London
Before Abercrombie and Forshaw, with their 1943 and 1944 plans for modernising London , with new ring roads, ‘zoned’ areas and satellite new towns, there […]
Curiocity – a very different type of guidebook
I’ve just done a review of Curiocity for the London Society (which you can read here). If you’ve not seen the book, go and do […]
Single Spies | Richmond Theatre
Review of the Alan Bennett plays that form Single Spies, at the Richmond Theatre, March 2016. First published in Essential Surrey In the 1930s, the […]
Merry Wives | Northern Broadsides
Review of the Northern Broadsides’ production of Merry Wives at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. March 2016 Northern Broadside’s Merry Wives, at the Rose Theatre in […]
Bye bye bonfire night
Over 400 years of tradition is coming to an end in London:- the public celebration of Guy Fawkes or Bonfire Night. Of course there are […]
The Lloyd’s Building
In 1978, the year after architect Richard Rogers’ Pompidou Centre opened in Paris, construction started on his first major London project, The Lloyd’s Building in Lime […]
Wren’s Monument to the 1666 Great Fire
Climb the 311 stairs today to the top of the Monument and the the 21st century City spreads out around you. To the north the […]
Rock ‘n’ Roll London
One of the shocks of middle age is realising just how old some of the music is that one listens to. Like all right-thinking people, […]