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The sun shone down on Hackney Wick, I turned a corner and there was the Lord Napier pub. Or rather it wasn’t. My heart sank. In its place…
In the centre of the triangle of land just north of Kensington Gardens which is marked out by Bayswater, Royal Oak and Paddington tube stations stands the Hallfield…
l used to walk past this building on High Holborn for years and always assumed it was mock Tudor. Turns out I was wrong and on more than…
Have you seen the movie The Madness of King George? It’s about George III who, as it says in the title, went a bit doolally. His wife, Queen…
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…
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…