
Leake Street – London’s Street Art Tunnel
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Tudor, had a pretty tenuous claim on the English throne. His mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a great granddaughter of John of Gaunt (third son […]
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 – […]
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), […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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