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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…
In the centre of the triangle of land just north of Kensington Gardens which is marked out by Bayswater, Royal Oak and Paddington tube stations stands the Hallfield…
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…
l used to walk past this building on High Holborn for years and always assumed it was mock Tudor. Turns out I was wrong and on more than…
Back from my holidays, I took the dog for an early evening, early Autumn walk on Clapham Common. Our first walk together in just under a month, we…
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…
I’ve walked past this place on my daily lunchtime perambulation for the past four years. It has always caught my eye. In my ignorance, I’d never considered that…
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…