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 […]
Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar
Buried under the Ministry of Defence in Whitehall is an extraordinary historical survivor. Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar is one of the few remaining parts […]
Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner
Today I was going to go round Banqueting House, the last properly surviving bit of the old Palace of Whitehall, but when I got there […]
The Post Office Central Power Station
Another door, this time on Barge House Street, in the outer wall of what is now the Oxo Tower complex. The Royal coat of arms above […]
Reginald Warneford – first destroyer of a Zeppelin
In Brompton Cemetery stands a wonderful monument to Reginald Warneford, the first man to destroy a Zeppelin in combat, over Belgium on 7 June 1915. He didn’t shoot it down, […]
Edwin Evans and Battersea Rise
The closing of a small estate agent’s office in South West London is hardly big news (some might even raise a cheer), but the closure […]
Early morning London
At the beginning of June I did the Nightrider challenge – 100km cycling around London overnight. It was exhausting, tiring, but great fun (a full […]
‘Go Gay’ Going
I’ve always loved the sign for this laundrette on the Wandsworth Bridge Road. It’s lovable partly for the involuntary snigger it always causes, but mainly […]