Uccello – the Battle of San Romano
PREVIOUS: THE WILTON DIPTYCH Paolo Uccello: The Battle of San Romano: About 1438-40 We are looking at a battle scene – although quite a bloodless one. A […]
The National Gallery
The entries below all come from another part of the Blue Badge guiding course that I started in September 2014. As well as being able […]
No. 1 Poultry – Sir James Stirling’s PoMo
If you want to build anything in the City of London there are three hurdles to be overcome – first you have to be allowed […]
The Wobbly Bridge – Foster and Caro’s ‘Blade of Light’
Spanning the river from St Paul’s Cathedral to the Tate Modern, London’s gallery of modern and contemporary art housed in the former Bankside power station […]
The Moorgate Lighthouse
Stroll up Moorgate Street from the Bank of England, and about a third of the way along on your right, look up and, set into […]
Police Telephone Post
This splendid object is over the road from the entrance to Postman’s Park in St Martin’s le Grand. It’s a reminder of a time when the […]
London from the Shard
The new header image you can see above (and to the right, click on it to see the bigger version ) was my Christmas present […]
Bleeding London
Bleeding London is an exceptionally ambitious, and potentially quite wonderful, project to capture a picture from every street in London. It wasn’t something I was aware […]
My favourite piece in the British Museum
You can keep your hoards of gold and silver, your Egyptian mummies, your blockbuster Viking exhibitions. For me, the most wonderful piece in the whole […]
The Orangery, Clapham
This was a surprise. You really don’t expect to come across a huge Georgian relic in a post-war south London housing estate. But in the […]