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Behind the green door: Elms Lesters Painting Rooms and Stores

In the madness that is the current rebuilding of Tottenham Court Road station as part of the  Crossrail development, there is one small oasis of calm. Tucked in…

A writer’s view of the street

As I wandered round Cloudesley Square, one of Islington’s very fine Georgian squares, trying to mentally undress the dominating church at its centre of the scaffolding overcoat that…

Charlie Brown’s pub at Limehouse

Sadly closed and demolished to make way for the Limehouse Link Tunnel in 1989, Charlie Brown’s was one of the pubs featured in Alan Reeve-Jones book London pubs….

From manufactory to gallery in Fitzrovia: T J Boultings and Sons

I love Fitzrovia; the area and the word. It’s named after Fitzroy Square*, a beautiful Georgian Square at its heart which was pedestrianised in the 1970’s and now…

The pink thinker

Out the back of The Grapes pub in Limehouse, if you swivel your head to the left you see this fellow.

Serpentine Pavilion 2016

IThe 2016 Serpentine Pavilion is looking none too shabby this year.

We built this city on rock and roll

I spent part of 2014 working at The Serpentine Gallery. Whilst there we built a pavilion ( see photos of the work in progress) ready for the very…

I found this down Newman Passage

It was looking down from one of the buildings that backs on to the Passage I haven’t a clue why it is there but it always cheers me…

Two sides to every story

If you approach this door from the left you get half the message and from the right the other half. You have to stand right in front to…

Henry Moore – down in the tube station at midnight?

There’s a new exhibition of Henry Moore’s work at Tate Britain which runs from February 24th to August 8th, 2010. It includes some of the most famous pictures of London during…