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Summer in the park with horse: Sunday morning picture #3

This was a lazy late summer Sunday afternoon on Clapham Common. I was horribly hungover and tired. We were walking the dog and picking apart the events of…

The Cockpit: Sunday morning Picture #2

It sits on St Andrews Hill at the head of a 21st century development, unbending towards, nor caring about, the preprosterous tail of modernity that sways behind it…

London juxtapositions…

I’ve been re-reading Mark Lewisohn’s majestic biography of the Beatles (or at least the first volume thereof; we fans are still waiting for him to release the second…

Revisiting the Barbican

My friend Lucy has moved to the Barbican, lucky her. She has a key that unlocks the gates into the private gardens and offered me a tour, lucky…

On Golden Square

I had a minor operation to fix a problem with my knee earlier this week. The injury has meant that I haven’t done much walking of late and…

St George’s Gardens

I have several regular lunchtime walking routes and thought that they covered most of interesting streets in the area. Turns out I was wrong. I turned a corner…

It’s fun to eat at the (Indian) YMCA

I’ve walked past this place on my daily lunchtime perambulation for the past four years. It has always caught my eye. In my ignorance, I’d never considered that…

Oxford Street; early on a late summer’s morning

I found myself on the pedestrian island that runs along the middle of Oxford Street this morning. Looking left and right the road was as empty as I’ve…

Everything’s gone green: the court of the paviour

At the end of the seventeenth century, Edward Wardour, who developed this part of Soho, leased a plot of to the man who lay his paving slabs, one…

Goodwins Court

It connects St Martins Lane and Bedfordbury and is another one of those hidden courts around Covent Garden. You could walk past it without giving it the time…