Tag: LuftwaffePage 1 of 2
Wardrobe Place just off Carter Lane, a lovely courtyard dating back to the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire.
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…
I love these old schools with their statues of children dressed in blue that are scattered around London and beyond. Blue is always the colour for the clothes…
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…
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…
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 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…
The walk along Creek Road from Greenwich to Deptford offers little of architectural interest until you cross Deptford Church Street and a passage leads you to a cobbled…
It is surrounded by modern monoliths of the NHS; huge utilitarian buildings of glass and steel that may be efficient and fit for purpose but they are not…
If one of London’s dockers – say Danny Baker’s Dad, Spud, from the excellent Cradle To The Grave TV series – came back from even fifty years ago…