Tag: British museum

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, revolutionary, meet Jerome Klapka Jerome, writer. Another London juxtaposition.

Despite being painted bright green and standing out like a sore thumb in a row of white fronted buildings, the Albany Hotel on Tavistock Place is a tired…

Lock & Co

(This is another entry in my series on London’s shops.) It is an extraordinary front door. Gnarled and chipped, seemingly much-repaired, but also smartly painted in a business-like…

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…