Author: TheLondoniPage 16 of 28
This is a real old slice of Victorian London. A proper public convenience – of the Parisian-styled pissoir variety – of which very few survive. Made of iron,…
Sarah Siddons sits on her marble throne looking as theatrically pissed off as only a former acting superstar (missing her nose) can. Living through the heady years of…
A mews is a marvellous London thing. In the old days, before the invention of the internal combustion engine, large houses shared a sliver of local land in…
I was following one of Geoffrey Fletcher‘s old walks through 1970’s London which he’d documented in his excellent book London At My Feet. Practically all of the “old…
It’s not a long street; just over one hundred metres I would guess. Nor does it have an exceptional location. Part of the underbelly of Covent Garden, it…
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…
It was beginning to rain as I was walking down Euston Road and I was forced to take shelter under the portico of a church on the corner…
A dreaded sunny day So I meet you at the cemetery gates…. ….we go inside and we gravely read the stones All those people all those lives Where…
This picture has been taken from an unusual angle. In the words of the now much-reviled Rolf Harris, can you see what it is yet? It is the…
George Washington & Co founded the United States of America in 1776. In London, W.Sitch & Co founded a new company in the same year. Despite being as old…