Author: TheLondoniPage 11 of 28
I found myself on the pedestrian island that runs along the middle of Oxford Street this morning. Looking left and right the road was as empty as I’ve…
I must walk past this place half a dozen times each week but have only just noticed that it has been tarted up. Rippon’s Newsagent is on Dean Street…
The walk along Creek Road from Greenwich to Deptford offers little of architectural interest until you cross Deptford Church Street and a passage leads you to a cobbled…
For the last seventeen years, the Serpentine Gallery has spent a small fortune commissioning and then building a structure in its front garden. A different architect is chosen…
You can be as naughty as you want but don’t get caught. A sighting of Princess Di on Monmouth Street
I came into Monmouth Street looking for a scene sketched by Geoffrey Fletcher in his book The London Dickens Knew. That’s how sad I am. I collect old…
I usually spend my time taking photos of London’s old buildings. On one recent occasion, however, I found myself inadvertently taking pictures of one of London’s artistic institutions,…
At the end of the seventeenth century, Edward Wardour, who developed this part of Soho, leased a plot of to the man who lay his paving slabs, one…
Tyler’s Court connects Wardour Street to Berwick Street; the picture above was taken in Berwick Street. This part of Soho was developed on rural land acquired by a…
The man who designed the Paragon was “just” a commercial architect, and the son of a commercial architect to boot, who needed to scratch a living from his…
I think I’ve found the best place in South London to gaze upon the majestic Shard. Platform 9 of the hugely and impressively revamped London Bridge railway station…