The Riddle of the (Embankment) Sphinx
As an adventure in Google, in maps, in diving down rabbit holes, my plan to post up a photo I took of one of the […]
The Supreme Court and Tothill House of Correction
On the south west corner of Parliament Square, directly over the road from Westminster Abbey, is the Supreme Court building. The final court of appeal […]
The Citadel – Central London’s real wartime bunker
Squatting next to the elegant Queen Anne revival of the Old Admiralty Building (and more on that at some point) on the north side of […]
A Visit to Bow Street Police Museum
On 14 July 2006 the magistrates’ court opposite the Royal Opera House on Bow Street tried its final cases before being closed and redeveloped as […]
The Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge
In a bomb-proof concrete bunker 60 feet below the ground of what was once RAF Uxbridge is one of the most important sites in 20th […]
Locations from the Blog
A map! (Another map). I’ve tried to put the locations on the map referred to in the blog posts. Click on a location pin and […]
Queen Anne’s Gate: Higgledy-Piggledy in SW1
Apparently the expression “higgledy-piggledy” is not much known in the US; my use of the phrase to an American tour group as we passed a […]
The Statue of General Wolfe, Greenwich Park
WHAT: Statue of James Wolfe WHERE: The Royal Observatory, Greenwich (map) BY WHOM: Robert Tait McKenzie WHEN: 1930 From the statue of James Wolfe, next […]
The Wondrous Pelicans of St James’s Park
Oh, a wondrous bird is the pelican!His bill holds more than his belican.He takes in his beakFood enough for a week.But I’ll be darned if […]
The South Bank Lion
For the past several months I’ve been taking groups of cruise passengers on a Winston Churchill tour – five days encompassing Chartwell, Bletchley, Blenheim, the […]