Tag: Embankment

Water Gate, Essex Street

Essex Street takes you down from the Strand to the Embankment by Middle Temple. At the south end of the street is this old Water Gate built in…

Temple Tudor (and other period buildings)

It’s another wonderful, secluded London sanctuary hidden in plain sight from the busy streets that surround it, including Fleet Street and the Embankment. And it’s also another piece of…

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…

Gotham City in London

I sat and had al fresco lunch in Victoria Embankment Gardens with my daughter and looked up at the back of buildings that face on to the Strand…