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Fitzrovia has so many striking buildings that you can become blind to the splendours that surround you as you walk around it. I must have walked past this place…
One of the most interesting facts – and there are many – about Lincoln’s Inn is that the Elizabethan playwright and actor Ben Jonson, a contemporary and rival…
It does not feature on many of the maps of London; it’s not even on Google Maps. But if you walk away from the column at the centre of…
I’ve long been intrigued by W.Sitch & Co, as you can see from this post from earlier this year, but until last week I had never seen inside….
Carey Street runs from Portugal Street and the student quarter around the LSE across to Chancery Lane and London’s legal area. It is famous as the original “Queer…
I was following one of Geoffrey Fletcher‘s old walks through 1970’s London which he’d documented in his excellent book London At My Feet. Practically all of the “old…
One great pleasure of walking the streets of London is to turn a corner, wander down an unfamiliar street and find something at the end of it that…
George Washington & Co founded the United States of America in 1776. In London, W.Sitch & Co founded a new company in the same year. Despite being as old…
I love Fitzrovia; the area and the word. It’s named after Fitzroy Square*, a beautiful Georgian Square at its heart which was pedestrianised in the 1970’s and now…
They sell umbrellas and walking sticks and are pretty good at it now, having been in the game since 1830. This is the new shop. They moved to…