Tail end of the queue to present grapes The scene could be a British B movie. A warehouse in South London. A chill October morning. Cars arrive. Packages are taken…
My London
100 Union Street Southwark I glimpsed this urban oasis from a train coming from London Bridge (on top of the arches, above) and was soon wandering down Union Street beyond…
All Hallows – looking less hallowed in the shadow of the upwardly mobile “Walkie Talkie” building Walking in the crypt of All Hallows, the oldest church in the City close…
We hear a lot about new tech companies in London but a lot less about vineyard start-ups. So, a warm welcome – and as a vineyard it sure needs a…
55 Pall Mall now . . . and then I HAVE occasionally wondered why 52 Pall Mall looks so different to its neighbours. The answer is…
If ever there were paintings looking for a home it is surely the Government’s own collection of over 13,000 works many of them currently in storage in a back…
Gray’s Inn Hall where Shakespeare probably performed The Inns of Court are London’s most astonishing survivors and also among the least known to most of its citizens. Visiting them –…
Taking The Bard for Granted (reprinted, courtesy of @LondonHistorian) by Victor Keegan In Staunton, Virginia there is a loving re-construction of the Blackfriars Theatre which after 1608 was the main…
Not a moment easily to forget. There I was last night standing in the dock in Court Number 1 at the Old Bailey where Dr Crippen, John Reginald Haliday…
The centre of Victoria – including the station and most of Victoria Street – is being torn apart by our good friends at Land Securities. But there remains one…
It is not often that London’s hidden rivers are revealed to the open air in which they once basked – but it has happened momentarily to the Tyburn as…
It is not often you get a chance to move 6,000 years back in time in London, and especially not at Vauxhall. It happens once a year at…
Westminster Abbey, is too glorious (and expensive at £16 per adult) to fit our usual criteria of unusual places. But not so its less visited but delightful cloisters and grounds…
This imposing Greek styled building in the middle of Mayfair feels more like a gentleman’s club than a scientific institution yet it has a jewel of a museum…
For most of my life – until last week – I had been under the impression that the only sizeable remains of the Seven Wonders of the World were…