Stuff About London

Leake Street – London’s Street Art Tunnel

09/11/2023 donbrown 0

I feel almost embarrassed to admit that I’m not a huge fan of ‘street art’. One can admire the draughtsmanship, say, or the use of […]

Gluttony and grave robbing – Pye Corner in Smithfield

21/10/2023 donbrown 0

Stroll up Giltspur Street towards Smithfield Market and look up to your left at the building on the corner of Cock Lane. In an arched […]

Albert Bridge: “A temporary gangway flung across the river”

21/10/2023 donbrown 0

One of my all time great London moments was a late summer evening about 30 years ago when I was walking home from a meeting […]

The Blue Bridge in St James’s Park

03/10/2023 donbrown 0

It’s the platform for a trillion photos – to the west is Buckingham Palace, framed by trees, and look east to see Horseguards, the London […]

Henry VII, Ted Lasso, and the Richmond greyhounds

24/09/2023 donbrown 1

Henry Tudor, had a pretty tenuous claim on the English throne. His mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a great granddaughter of John of Gaunt (third son […]

Prince Albert’s Mega-kitsch Memorial

06/09/2023 donbrown 0

Of course the damn thing is utterly absurd. Every criticism of high victoriana – over-sentimental, over-decorated, over-elaborate to the point of fussy, over size – […]

St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”

28/08/2023 donbrown 0

Find your way to the High Holborn entrance to the roof terrace of the new ‘Post Building’ (the former Royal Mail West Central District Office), […]

The Teenage Queen Victoria

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

If I say “Queen Victoria” I’m guessing that the picture in your head is of the late-age monarch, ‘we are not amused’-era, dressed in mourning […]

St Mary’s Isn’t in the Way

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

One of the ways in which the city has been vastly improved over the past few years has been the claiming back of roadways into […]

The Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Victoria Embankment

15/08/2023 donbrown 0

WHAT: The Anglo-Belgian Memorial WHERE: Victoria Embankment (map) BY WHOM: Victor Rousseau (and Reginald Blomfield) WHEN: 1920 The casus belli for the British Empire’s declaration […]

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Leake Street – London’s Street Art Tunnel

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Gluttony and grave robbing – Pye Corner in Smithfield

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Albert Bridge: “A temporary gangway flung across the river”

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The Blue Bridge in St James’s Park

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Henry VII, Ted Lasso, and the Richmond greyhounds

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Prince Albert’s Mega-kitsch Memorial

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St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”

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The Teenage Queen Victoria

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St Mary’s Isn’t in the Way

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The Belgian Gratitude Memorial, Victoria Embankment

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