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My visit to St John’s Gate, the last remaining part of the old Clerkenwell Priory.
I hadn’t realised the extent of the Regent’s Park scheme developed by architect John Nash under the patronage of the Prince Regent, the future George IV, at the…
All that remains of Clifford’s Inn, the Inn of Chancery that was founded in 1344 and dissolved in 1903, is this solitary gate in Clifford’s Inn Passage. The…
Ancient Inn’s abound in Holborn. I don’t mean just the drinking, stabling-your-horse-overnight type of Inns, but also the legal buildings that are part of the deep and old…
Across the road from Great Ormond Street Hospital stands an old house that catches the eye with its classical Georgian visage supplemented by an unusual extension that runs…
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…
It caught my eye as I wandered round Clerkenwell the other day. A tree poking its head out of Clerkenwell Close to see what is going on in…
King’s Cross has really gone up in the world. The station itself has been wonderfully re-invented, St Pancras, too, as it has taken over as the terminal for…
The late afternoon light transformed the Thames and its neighbours. There are shades of Monet’s paintings of London at the turn of the twentieth century, with mist in…
Oh I do love a good almshouse and I am always pleased to take a detour to have a poke around one of them. I’m not exactly sure…