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I Camisa & Son, Old Compton Street

I work around the corner from Old Compton Street and am partial to a Friday portion of fish and chips from the fabulous Poppies restaurant on that street….

My 250th blog entry – The Old Curiosity Shop under siege

It’s not going to be a long post. I’m besotted with Charles Dickens at the moment, listening to his novels as audiobooks and seeking out places he describes…

Bluecoats in Hatton Garden

I love these old schools with their statues of children dressed in blue that are scattered around London and beyond. Blue is always the colour for the clothes…

Victoria Park on a sunny winter’s afternoon

How have I managed to live in London for 32 years and only been to Victoria Park once before?That was in September 2000 to watch a Radiohead concert…

Hallfield Estate

In the centre of the triangle of land just north of Kensington Gardens which is marked out by Bayswater, Royal Oak and Paddington tube stations stands the Hallfield…

Staple Inn

l used to walk past this building on High Holborn for years and always assumed it was mock Tudor. Turns out I was wrong and on more than…

Poking around in Pied Bull Yard

I was winding my way up through the smaller streets from Lincoln’s Inn Fields to the British Museum when I spotted this entrance to Pied Bull Yard from…

Squirrel and chips in Gordon Square

What’s a peckish squirrel to do on a bright spring morning other than head down to Gordon Square to share a McDonald’s with a hungover student? This one…

An urban crop circle in the shape of a barbell: Alfred Place, South and North Crescents, Bloomsbury

I have walked along Store Street and past South Crescent many times without questioning whether, as there is a South Crescent, is there also a corresponding North Crescent?…

The Quad at Guy’s Hospital

It is surrounded by modern monoliths of the NHS; huge utilitarian buildings of glass and steel that may be efficient and fit for purpose but they are not…