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I have several regular lunchtime walking routes and thought that they covered most of interesting streets in the area. Turns out I was wrong. I turned a corner…
I love these old schools with their statues of children dressed in blue that are scattered around London and beyond. Blue is always the colour for the clothes…
The Italian community in Clerkenwell, which had grown from a handful of emigrants fleeing the revolutions in Italy in the 1840’s into a full “colony” of several thousand…
I was venturing to North London – Tufnell Park to be precise – to watch the rugby in a pub with friends, anyway. But then my Songkick App…
I had an hour to spare before catching a train from King’s Cross and headed north past St Pancras Station in the direction of the Regent’s Canal I…
On the side of the Bow Bells pub on Bow Road, this black and white mural of Pearly Kings and Queens and market traders and horse drawn wagons…
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…
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…