Tag: 2018
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…
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?…
What’s a peckish squirrel to do on a bright spring morning other than head down to Gordon Square to share a McDonald’s with a hungover student? This one…
Like its neighbour and contemporary, St Paul’s Cathedral, St Vedast-alias-Foster survived the blitz in the second world war when much of the local area was devastated amd destroyed….
The Barbican is an unusual urban village on the edges of the City. Part within the old City walls and part without, it looks like a brutal version…
Fitzroy Square was laid out and developed in the 1790’s and early 1800’s. These houses must have seen thousands of horse drawn coaches delivering guests to their doors…
I do love to discover a new world in the multiverse that is London. I’m interested in the work of the artist James Boswell and The Gentle Author…
I have a book of sketches by Hanslip Fletcher called Bombed London. He drew the pictures during World War Two and published many of them in The Daily…
There they are, huddled together for strength against the prevailing and uncaring winds of this modern world. Known to the postman as 229-230 Strand and home to the…
I’ve just got back from the pictures where I saw the new Daniel Day-Lewis flick, “Phantom Thread”. Day-Lewis threatens that it’s his final film. I hope not. He’s…