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It sits on St Andrews Hill at the head of a 21st century development, unbending towards, nor caring about, the preprosterous tail of modernity that sways behind it…
St Martins Court is shaped like a chair knocked over and lying on its back. It helps fill the gap between Charing Cross Road, once famously home of…
When I heard that Fullers had sold their brewing business to Asahi, the Japanese company, earlier this year my heart sank. Youngs sold theirs a few years back…
Sometimes London just thrills me. And it can be the smallest of things. There I am wandering through my life in this city and then I turn a…
You can easily miss it. Tucked down a side alley that leads from Hatton Garden, with its gaudy jewelry shops, to the stunted Ely Place, Ye Old Mitre…
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…
The sun shone down on Hackney Wick, I turned a corner and there was the Lord Napier pub. Or rather it wasn’t. My heart sank. In its place…
Milroys has been selling whisky in Soho since 1964. I’ve been in London for more than three decades and I’ve bought the odd bottle of whisky for Christmas…
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…
As any fule knows, London has a whole lot of rivers that flow through it into the Thames. Some are better known than others, the old “street of…