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Despite being painted bright green and standing out like a sore thumb in a row of white fronted buildings, the Albany Hotel on Tavistock Place is a tired…
I walk past the entrance of the Soho Car Park in Poland Street on most days. Although quite a nondescript opening, it deserves some celebrity as this was…
How was your week? Mine was a bit of a wash out. Not only did it seem to always be raining, or threatening to rain, or else the…
It caught my eye as I wandered round Clerkenwell the other day. A tree poking its head out of Clerkenwell Close to see what is going on in…
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…
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…
I have walked along Store Street and past South Crescent many times without questioning whether, as there is a South Crescent, is there also a corresponding North Crescent?…
Stockwell was originally a manor house and its surrounding lands which was granted by the crown in the thirteenth century. It remained in private hands until the very beginning…
The council have been busy giving the trees of Stockwell a short back and sides, ready for winter. These trees in Cranworth Gardens appeared to be startled and…
I seem to be getting mildly obsessed by the origin of street names in Soho. This one, Bateman Street, which connects Dean Street to Greek Street was named…