Stuff About London

Bye bye bonfire night

28/10/2016 donbrown 0

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 […]

Rogers' Lloyd's Building reflected in Foster's Willis Building

The Lloyd’s Building

25/10/2016 donbrown 1

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

21/10/2016 donbrown 0

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

20/07/2016 donbrown 0

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, […]

Book review: Up in Smoke by Peter Watts

30/04/2016 donbrown 0

I have a terrible confession to make, one that will see me shunned by London society, if not drummed out of the city altogether: I […]

Hilda Hewlett – Pioneer Aviator

26/04/2016 donbrown 0

Men outnumber women on London’s Blue Plaques by over seven to one, so it was good to stumble across this in Vardens Road, just off St […]

Bonnington Square: Rus in Urbe with knobs on

25/04/2016 donbrown 0

There’s a truism that if you venture off the main street almost anywhere in London you’ll discover something new. I do this a lot, sometimes just […]

Bricking It – the Tate Modern Extension

20/04/2016 donbrown 0

Step out of the back door of the Blue Fin Building (as I did this morning) and rising up in front of you is the […]

In the Clink

18/04/2016 donbrown 0

In London, the old Victorian prisons are just there, an almost unnoticed background to everyday life; Wandsworth is over the road from my local garden […]

Getting the Blue Badge

06/04/2016 donbrown 0

Well, I finally went and actually did it and passed the exams to be a fully-fledged London Blue Badge Guide. That means I can now […]

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Bye bye bonfire night

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