Christchurch Greyfriars and the 1666 Great Fire 07/10/2015 donbrown 0 In the post on the Firefighters’ Memorial we talked about the destruction caused by the Blitz – and Christchurch Greyfriars gives a hint of that […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
The Firefighters Memorial, St Paul’s 07/10/2015 donbrown 1 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
St James Garlickhythe 09/09/2015 donbrown 0 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Cleary Gardens – one of the City’s ‘Pocket Parks’ 09/09/2015 donbrown 2 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 […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
The City and the Guilds 29/08/2015 donbrown 0 Stand on Dowgate with your back to Cannon Street station and you can see the entrances to three of the halls of the City’s oldest […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Dick Whittington’s Church 28/08/2015 donbrown 0 St Michael Paternoster Royal is one of 51 churches rebuilt by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire. St Michael is the archangel Michael – God’s […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Postman’s Park – the Memorial to ‘Heroic Self-sacrifice’ 03/08/2015 donbrown 0 A small bit of green space on the site of the churchyard and burial ground of St Botolph’s, Aldersgate, which opened in 1880. Over the […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
One New Change 30/07/2015 donbrown 0 The architect of One New Change, Jean Nouvel, described his building as a ‘stealth bomber’; it’s something very big – well over half a million […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Monet – The Gare St Lazare 20/07/2015 donbrown 0 PREVIOUS: CONSTABLE – STRATFORD MILL Claude Monet: The Gare St Lazare: 1877 This picture is an urban Parisian scene rather than a rural view, but […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Constable – Stratford Mill 20/07/2015 donbrown 0 PREVIOUS: TURNER – THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE John Constable: Stratford Mill: 1820 We think of Constable’s landscapes as classic images of the English countryside, almost ‘chocolate […] Share this:EmailThreadsBlueskyMoreShare on TumblrPrintRedditLike this:Like Loading...
