Category: Hospital

A summer’s day at St John’s Gate

My visit to St John’s Gate, the last remaining part of the old Clerkenwell Priory.

No.49 Great Ormond Street

Across the road from Great Ormond Street Hospital stands an old house that catches the eye with its classical Georgian visage supplemented by an unusual extension that runs…

St Andrews Place

It has probably the closest concentration of Grade I listed buildings by different architects in the whole of London. John Nash, the leading Regency architect and friend of…

The Quad at Guy’s Hospital

It is surrounded by modern monoliths of the NHS; huge utilitarian buildings of glass and steel that may be efficient and fit for purpose but they are not…

No.70 Bermondsey Street

No 70 Bermondsey High street is a lovely old shop that has survived the many changes of the last two hundred and fifty years largely intact. It was…

Black and white story

This extrovert building was put up in Langham Street in 1901, at the very end of Victoria ‘s reign, as a Nurses Home. It was designed by A.E….