
St George’s Bloomsbury: the triumph of “the Devil’s Architect”
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), […]
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 […]
If pushed to choose humankind’s greatest inventions, I’d probably put the wheel second, because head and shoulders above everything has to be custard. Creamy, eggy, […]
Under the Bloomberg European headquarters building in the City is the ‘London Mithraeum’, a glimpse into an obscure part of Roman London. Obscure not just […]
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 […]
[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, […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
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