Tag: 1857

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…

J. Kinninmont & Sons

This is the kind of nerdy nonsense that London makes me do. I was following the trail of the underground River Westbourne from Hampstead down to the Thames…

No.70 Bermondsey Street

No 70 Bermondsey High street is a lovely old shop that has survived the many changes of the last two hundred and fifty years largely intact. It was…