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Is this the most bizarre shop in land-locked Central London? Arthur Beale sounds like a character from Eastenders but is in fact an ancient Ships Chandlers, located on…
I had a minor operation to fix a problem with my knee earlier this week. The injury has meant that I haven’t done much walking of late and…
St Martins Court is shaped like a chair knocked over and lying on its back. It helps fill the gap between Charing Cross Road, once famously home of…
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…
Barnard’s Inn was one of the Inns of Chancery where solicitors traditionally trained and practised law from chambers within the Inn building until the nineteenth century. As 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…
It caught my eye as I wandered round Clerkenwell the other day. A tree poking its head out of Clerkenwell Close to see what is going on in…
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…
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…
Puma Court takes you from the frenetic energy of Commercial Street to the calm stature of the eighteenth century houses in Wilkes Street and beyond. On the left…