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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…
This is the kind of nerdy nonsense that London makes me do. I was following the trail of the underground River Westbourne from Hampstead down to the Thames…
This was an unexpected pleasure. I was walking the length of the River Westbourne, one of the hidden, largely underground rivers that feed into the Thames when I…
What’s a peckish squirrel to do on a bright spring morning other than head down to Gordon Square to share a McDonald’s with a hungover student? This one…
Like its neighbour and contemporary, St Paul’s Cathedral, St Vedast-alias-Foster survived the blitz in the second world war when much of the local area was devastated amd destroyed….
The Barbican is an unusual urban village on the edges of the City. Part within the old City walls and part without, it looks like a brutal version…
Fitzroy Square was laid out and developed in the 1790’s and early 1800’s. These houses must have seen thousands of horse drawn coaches delivering guests to their doors…
I do love to discover a new world in the multiverse that is London. I’m interested in the work of the artist James Boswell and The Gentle Author…
I have a book of sketches by Hanslip Fletcher called Bombed London. He drew the pictures during World War Two and published many of them in The Daily…
There they are, huddled together for strength against the prevailing and uncaring winds of this modern world. Known to the postman as 229-230 Strand and home to the…