Category: Gardens

Revisiting the Barbican

My friend Lucy has moved to the Barbican, lucky her. She has a key that unlocks the gates into the private gardens and offered me a tour, lucky…

On Golden Square

I had a minor operation to fix a problem with my knee earlier this week. The injury has meant that I haven’t done much walking of late and…

St George’s Gardens

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…

A wander in St Pancras Gardens

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…

Art wars and nesting boxes at Cremorne Gardens

I went for a wander through old Chelsea yesterday, poking my nose into various nooks and crannies, taking photos and trying to imagine what Chelsea must have been…

London’s loveliest building?

Sometimes it’s like a submarine that has surfaced in the middle of a Victorian park and at others it’s a hippopotamus wallowing in a lagoon. It is as curved…