The Blue and Green Plaques of St James’s Place
St James’s Place, which cuts between St James’s Street and Green Park, has the modernist/brutalist Target House at one end, and the vast neo-classical pile […]
Book Review | Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub
[This review was first published on The London Society website in February 2022] As a London Blue Badge Guide I take Americans around London – the Tower, […]
Book Review | High Buildings, Low Morals by Rob Baker
[This review was first published on The London Society website in November 2017] Fans of Rob Baker’s blog ‘Another Nickel in the Machine‘ and his […]
Book Review | Vic Keegan’s Lost London
[This review was first published on The London Society Website in February 2021] Followers of the OnLondon twitter feed will know that every week, among the pieces […]
Book Review | Bus Fare by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr
Bus Fare: Collected Writings on London’s Most Loved Means of Transport by Travis Elborough and Joe Kerr, published by AA Publishing. [This review was first published […]
Equestrian Statue of Ferdinand Foch, Grosvenor Gardens
WHAT: Ferdinand Foch WHERE: Lower Grosvenor Gardens (map) BY WHOM: Georges Malissard WHEN: 1930 Within the (slightly grotty) public space of Lower Grosvenor Gardens, facing […]
Murder in the Abbey
One of the great things about Westminster Abbey is that it is almost impossible to tire of the place. Yes, it can be a bit […]
Victoria’s Secret Garden – a hidden gem in Westminster
The long highway of Victoria Street has to be one of the most second rate walking routes in the whole of the city. There is […]
‘Crown to Couture’ at Kensington Palace
I don’t usually do much in the way of “what’s happening in London now” posts, a combination of thinking that there are plenty of other […]
Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet
It’s somehow absolutely typical of london that some of the closest neighbours to George Gilbert Scott’s huge Italianate Foreign Office building is a pair of […]