The Wellington (aka Green Park or Constitution Hill) Arch
As well as Marble Arch to the north, Park Lane has at its opposite end what is now called the Wellington Arch. This is just […]
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The New London Model: Towering over the City
Should you want to feel godlike, the entire capital spread out beneath your glorious presence, then the place to go is The London Centre, in […]
A History of London – free talk recording
Last week I did a Zoom talk for 40 or so people as a fundraiser for Prostate Cancer UK. Called “a history of London in […]
Prince Albert’s Mega-kitsch Memorial
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”
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), […]
Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet
It’s somehow absolutely typical of london that some of the closest neighbours to George Gilbert Scott’s huge Italianate Foreign Office building is a pair of […]
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 […]
Stockwell’s concrete cathedral for buses
Fall asleep on a Go-Ahead bus and you might just be lucky enough to wake up in the depot – the soaring, concrete cathedral that […]
The Chapel of St John the Evangelist
One of the loveliest and most peaceful spaces in London is literally in the centre of one of the busiest. The Tower of London gets […]
Video: Square Stories – favourite squares in London, Oxford and Bath
Another video chat with the gang from UKToursOnline. This time we get competitive looking at “squares” – there are the London garden squares including Russell […]