Tag: 1950’s

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….

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…

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?…

Literary London: Colin Macinnes on Belgravia

This is the first of an occasional series of descriptions of London or its constituent parts from books. “And I must say that, in its way, I rather…