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Calverts Buildings on Borough High Street

Calvert Buildings – a little bit of Meideval London just off Borough High Street

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…

Poking around in Pied Bull Yard

I was winding my way up through the smaller streets from Lincoln’s Inn Fields to the British Museum when I spotted this entrance to Pied Bull Yard from…

The Madness of King George and Queen Square

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…

To The Art Workers Guild in Queen Square

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…

Rippon Newsagent, 88 Dean Street

I must walk past this place half a dozen times each week but have only just noticed that it has been tarted up. Rippon’s Newsagent is on Dean Street…

Albury Street, Deptford

The walk along Creek Road from Greenwich to Deptford offers little of architectural interest until you cross Deptford Church Street and a passage leads you to a cobbled…

The day I inadvertently “papped” Gilbert & George

I usually spend my time taking photos of London’s old buildings. On one recent occasion, however, I found myself inadvertently taking pictures of one of London’s artistic institutions,…

Everything’s gone green: the court of the paviour

At the end of the seventeenth century, Edward Wardour, who developed this part of Soho, leased a plot of to the man who lay his paving slabs, one…

Goodwins Court

It connects St Martins Lane and Bedfordbury and is another one of those hidden courts around Covent Garden. You could walk past it without giving it the time…