The London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park
In 1829 the Duke of Wellington, the then Prime Minister, fought a duel with the Earl of Winchelsea on Battersea Fields, an area of common […]
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Albert Bridge: “A temporary gangway flung across the river”
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 […]