Category: Canals

Park Village

I hadn’t realised the extent of the Regent’s Park scheme developed by architect John Nash under the patronage of the Prince Regent, the future George IV, at the…

Coal Drops Yard

King’s Cross has really gone up in the world. The station itself has been wonderfully re-invented, St Pancras, too, as it has taken over as the terminal for…

Barbican on a Sunday morning in winter

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…

Canals were the future once, too

When a young David Cameron first faced veteran Tony Blair as Leader of the Opposition at Prime Minister’s Question Time in 2005, he famously scored a withering put…

A fine walk interrupted by beer: in search of London Pubs

Start: Limehouse          Finish: Canary Wharf Coming out of Limehouse station’s Branch Road exit there is a path down to the Limehouse Basin which is…