Tag: 2019
When I heard that Fullers had sold their brewing business to Asahi, the Japanese company, earlier this year my heart sank. Youngs sold theirs a few years back…
If my dog could vote for a favourite London spot he would unhesitatingly make his mark next to Wimbledon Common on the ballot paper. If he could speak…
It’s not going to be a long post. I’m besotted with Charles Dickens at the moment, listening to his novels as audiobooks and seeking out places he describes…
l’m wandering around London with Charles Dickens rattling around inside my head at the moment. I listened to the audiobook of David Copperfield, which I started out of…
All that remains of Clifford’s Inn, the Inn of Chancery that was founded in 1344 and dissolved in 1903, is this solitary gate in Clifford’s Inn Passage. The…
Across the road from Great Ormond Street Hospital stands an old house that catches the eye with its classical Georgian visage supplemented by an unusual extension that runs…
Sometimes London just thrills me. And it can be the smallest of things. There I am wandering through my life in this city and then I turn a…