The Lewis Chess Pieces in the British Museum
One of the most famous of the early medieval exhibits from the museum is the Lewis chessmen. 93 separate pieces, in a variety of sizes, […]
Tang Grave Figures
The Tang dynasty – 618AD to 907AD – was one of the golden ages of China. We’re often a bit unspecific about the dates of […]
Westminster Abbey
The blog has been a bit neglected over the past few months as the work level for my London Blue Badge course has ramped up, […]
Bradley’s Spanish Bar
[Update: the good news, if you read the comments below, is that Bradley’s is safe until at least 2018. So even I might get around […]
King Lear – Richmond Shakespeare Society
This review originally appeared on the Sheengate Publishing site. The production ran from 7-14 November 2015. King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedies. Old men […]
The Glass Menagerie – Headlong Theatre
This review first appeared on the Sheengate publishing website. The production, by Headlong Theatre, was at Richmond Theatre from 3-7 November 2015. The Glass Menagerie […]
Christchurch Greyfriars and the 1666 Great Fire
In the post on the Firefighters’ Memorial we talked about the destruction caused by the Blitz – and Christchurch Greyfriars gives a hint of that […]
The Firefighters Memorial, St Paul’s
75 years ago George Orwell, the author of 1984 wrote, “as I write, highly civilised human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me”. He […]
St James Garlickhythe
With the current building works going on around it, the approach to St James’s is now down Garlick Hill, an indication – along with the church’s […]
Cleary Gardens – one of the City’s ‘Pocket Parks’
With so much noise and traffic in the City it’s sometimes nice to take a bit of time out. And that’s what places like Cleary […]