Tag: Queen Victoria
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…
There is a brooding presence just beyond the north west corner of Wandsworth Common. Gothic in temperament, constructed from cold-hearted grey brick, all towers and turrets, the Royal…
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…
Stockwell was originally a manor house and its surrounding lands which was granted by the crown in the thirteenth century. It remained in private hands until the very beginning…
This extrovert building was put up in Langham Street in 1901, at the very end of Victoria ‘s reign, as a Nurses Home. It was designed by A.E….