Tag: bloomsbury

St George’s Gardens

I have several regular lunchtime walking routes and thought that they covered most of interesting streets in the area. Turns out I was wrong. I turned a corner…

No.49 Great Ormond Street

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…

Poking around in Pied Bull Yard

I was winding my way up through the smaller streets from Lincoln’s Inn Fields to the British Museum when I spotted this entrance to Pied Bull Yard from…

The Madness of King George and Queen Square

Have you seen the movie The Madness of King George? It’s about George III who, as it says in the title, went a bit doolally. His wife, Queen…

To The Art Workers Guild in Queen Square

I do love to discover a new world in the multiverse that is London. I’m interested in the work of the artist James Boswell and The Gentle Author…

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?…

The Duke of York, Bloomsbury

This is a rather lovely pub that I stumbled across recently. The Duke of York sits as part of a Grade II listed, 1930’s development on the corner…

Woburn Walk

One great pleasure of walking the streets of London is to turn a corner, wander down an unfamiliar street and find something at the end of it that…

Just another church on a busy main road

It was beginning to rain as I was walking down Euston Road and I was forced to take shelter under the portico of a church on the corner…

The Museum Tavern

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…