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Saturday afternoon at the Union Chapel

I was venturing to North London – Tufnell Park to be precise – to watch the rugby in a pub with friends, anyway. But then my Songkick App…

Coal Drops Yard

King’s Cross has really gone up in the world. The station itself has been wonderfully re-invented, St Pancras, too, as it has taken over as the terminal for…

A wander in St Pancras Gardens

I had an hour to spare before catching a train from King’s Cross and headed north past St Pancras Station in the direction of the Regent’s Canal I…

Monday lunch with the Tudors

I’m reading C J Sansom’s latest book Tombland, a murder-mystery set in 1549 and starring the lawyer Matthew Shardlake as medieval sleuth. It’s a time of change. The…

Edwin Drood at Staple Inn

I love it when fictional London collides with a factual version of the city. After visiting Staples Inn a few month’s ago,I recently found this passage in The…

Victoria Park on a sunny winter’s afternoon

How have I managed to live in London for 32 years and only been to Victoria Park once before?That was in September 2000 to watch a Radiohead concert…

The Thames from Chelsea Embankment on a winter’s afternoon

The late afternoon light transformed the Thames and its neighbours. There are shades of Monet’s paintings of London at the turn of the twentieth century, with mist in…

Art wars and nesting boxes at Cremorne Gardens

I went for a wander through old Chelsea yesterday, poking my nose into various nooks and crannies, taking photos and trying to imagine what Chelsea must have been…

At the football, a Saturday at Griffin Park

What to do with a couple of friends who are down in London from the North and so hungover that they can’t face the thought of a beer?…

A visit to the Drapers Almshouses in Bow

Oh I do love a good almshouse and I am always pleased to take a detour to have a poke around one of them. I’m not exactly sure…