All Aboard! the splendid ‘Mail Rail’
Down into another tunnel for a trip on one of the capital’s less well known bits of the transport network – the Postal Museum’s ‘Mail […]
Down into another tunnel for a trip on one of the capital’s less well known bits of the transport network – the Postal Museum’s ‘Mail […]
To the opening of the new London version of the Jane Austen Experience at 11 John Princes Street, just round the corner from Oxford Circus. […]
A couple of years ago I wrote a post about the V2 (Vergeltungswaffe, or ‘vengeance weapon’) that stands in the atrium of the Imperial War […]
In the 30 years or so that I’ve been living in this part of Battersea I must have passed through Clapham south tube (my nearest […]
To “find yourself in Carey Street” used to mean you were broke, because this is where the main Bankruptcy Courts were based in the late […]
Westminster Abbey can be seen as many things. It’s a Royal Chapel, the place of coronations, weddings, funerals and burials; a National Church, where services […]
Standing for more than 600 years, old London Bridge was the longest inhabited stone bridge in Europe, a high street, a processional route, a gateway […]
You know the nursery rhyme, but do you know – or do you just think you know – the origin of the verse. Here are some of the theories.
Why the great long stone spike at the Southwark end of London Bridge might not mean what you think it does.
Across Southwark Street, a few hundred metres from the insanely busy Borough Market, is a little oasis of calm and mortality called the Crossbones Graveyard. […]
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