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Oi! What are you doing down there. Sunday morning pictures #4

These CCTVs are everywhere these days. There are around 700,000 in London and that number is only growing. Each London is captured by them 300 times each day,…

How to get a crane on top of a building

When I came out of work I found that they had shut Eastcastle Street and a fleet of flat bed trucks filled it, parked end to end in…

Amen Court: discovering a secret garden between Newgate Prison & St Paul’s Cathedral

Newgate Prison and St Paul’s Cathderal dominated this part of London for centuries. Both took a few blows during that time; each of them was destroyed by the…

No lion, no witch but here’s Wardrobe Place

Wardrobe Place just off Carter Lane, a lovely courtyard dating back to the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire.

Calverts Buildings on Borough High Street

Calvert Buildings – a little bit of Meideval London just off Borough High Street

Adverts Restored!

After my despondent post about the destruction of the old ads in the Poland Street garage by graffiti, I was delighted to walk past Q-Park this morning and…

So long then, to the lovely old ads in the Soho Car Park

I walk past the entrance of the Soho Car Park in Poland Street on most days. Although quite a nondescript opening, it deserves some celebrity as this was…

Peek a boo: Sunday Morning Picture #1

Why is there a gap between these buildings in Great Titchfield Street? On the right is the side of Audley House which spreads along the adjoined Margaret Street….

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…

The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth

There is a brooding presence just beyond the north west corner of Wandsworth Common. Gothic in temperament, constructed from cold-hearted grey brick, all towers and turrets, the Royal…