Tag: eighteenth century

Paxton & Whitfield

This is the first of a series of blog entries about shops. The never-ending shift to buying things online combined with the restrictions imposed by the government in…

On Golden Square

I had a minor operation to fix a problem with my knee earlier this week. The injury has meant that I haven’t done much walking of late and…

Puma Court

Puma Court takes you from the frenetic energy of Commercial Street to the calm stature of the eighteenth century houses in Wilkes Street and beyond. On the left…

On Rotherhithe Beach I sat down

If one of London’s dockers – say Danny Baker’s Dad, Spud, from the excellent Cradle To The Grave TV series – came back from even fifty years ago…

The corner of Sclater Street and Brick Lane

Look at the modest Georgian splendour of this building at the intersection of Sclater Street and Brick Lane. It was a mixed use development built in the eighteenth…