A Happy New Year to you all, and thanks for supporting this blog.
The year past has seen record numbers of visitors and page views, so thank you very much for reading, commenting, sharing and otherwise engaging with these posts.
Here’s the end of year review (the 2021 one is here), kicking off with the most-viewed posts of the past 12 months.
- Henry VIII’s Wine Cellar (last year’s position =1)
- Scientists’ Corner, Westminster Abbey (last year’s position =2)
- The Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey (up 1 place from no. 4)
- The Opening Ceremony at the Tower of London (new entry!)
- The American Memorial Chapel, St Paul’s (new entry!)
And apparently I produced 30 new posts during the year. Some of those have crashed and burned (I write these things because they interest me, not for the clicks (although the clicks are nice)).
World War 2 Stuff
- The Citadel – Central London’s real wartime bunker
- The Battle of Britain Bunker, Uxbridge
- The Billy Fiske Memorial, St Paul’s Cathedral
- The American Memorial Chapel, St Paul’s
Statues and Monuments
- The Riddle of the (Embankment) Sphinx
- The Statue of General Wolfe, Greenwich Park
- The South Bank Lion
- The Statue of Robert Clive – ‘Clive of India’
- No Pasaran! The Jubilee Gardens Memorial
- “Exquisite Pain” in St Bart’s
Buildings and Architecture
- The Church of St Mary Aldermanbury – London and Missouri
- The Supreme Court and Tothill House of Correction
- Queen Anne’s Gate: Higgledy-Piggledy in SW1
- Stockwell’s concrete cathedral for buses
- The Temple Bar Gate
Miscellaneous
- A Visit to Bow Street Police Museum
- The Wondrous Pelicans of St James’s Park
- An American Patriot?: Benedict Arnold in London
- The crypt museum in All Hallows by the Tower
- The Opening Ceremony at the Tower of London
- Westminster Abbey’s Hidden Highlights Tour
- An Elizabethan Prisoner’s Graffiti (Tower of London)
- The Sutton Hoo treasure (British Museum)
- The Oldest Door in Britain (Westminster Abbey)
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