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On an unusually sunny, blue-skied November Saturday afternoon, I went looking for the Eagle. Being the London nerd that I am, I was genuinely excited to be visiting…
In the run up to Rememberance Sunday, King’s Cross station commemorated the fallen with a giant poppy that sat above the concourse . It was a striking gesture…
Wow! I’ve been living in London for 31 years and somehow I’ve never walked up Hampstead Road before which means I’ve never seen this absolute gob-smacking ugly-beauty brute…
It’s not really a town, it’s an old boozer in Wapping and one with a hell of a back story. This building dates from 1748. Before that there…
To the Royal Festival Hall to see pop group ABC perform The Lexicon Of Love parts 1 & 2. Anne Dudley (who arranged strings on the albums) conducted…
They sell umbrellas and walking sticks and are pretty good at it now, having been in the game since 1830. This is the new shop. They moved to…
When you come to the eastern end of Oxford Street and cross Tottenham Court Road you hit New Oxford Street which has the feeling of being “a bit…
The Museum Tavern looks across at the grand front entrance of the British Museum which is on Great Russell Street. The pub itself sits on the corner of Museum…
The DLR train came to a momentary holt as it passed across Canary Wharf so that the passengers could admire the City of London; the Gherkin, Cheese Grater…
When first landed in the Smoke, I worked in the grey 1970’s building that you can see behind the sign of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese in the featured…