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The Body in the Lake: a Buckingham Palace Mystery

09/02/2025 donbrown 0

When John Nash remodelled Buckingham Palace and St James’s Park for George IV in the 1820s, he replaced the previous formal ‘canal’ waterway in the […]

The Blue Bridge in St James’s Park

03/10/2023 donbrown 0

It’s the platform for a trillion photos – to the west is Buckingham Palace, framed by trees, and look east to see Horseguards, the London […]

Duck Island Cottage – Westminster’s Swiss Chalet

15/05/2023 donbrown 0

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 Wondrous Pelicans of St James’s Park

22/08/2022 donbrown 0

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 […]