Tag: Trafalgar Square

It was (….gulp) 60 years ago today that the Beatles came to London to play

The Beatles were invited down to London for a recording test at Decca Studios sixty years ago today, on New Years Day 1962. (In those days New Years…

Monday lunch with the Tudors

I’m reading C J Sansom’s latest book Tombland, a murder-mystery set in 1549 and starring the lawyer Matthew Shardlake as medieval sleuth. It’s a time of change. The…

Clowntime is over

As I walked along St Martin’s Place  into Trafalgar Square I came across this man wearing a clown’s outfit. He was sitting on the wall just about to…

A golden moment

Sometimes you are in the right spot at the right time. On the last Friday evening before the clocks were turned back I found my self approaching St…