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…
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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 –…
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 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…
Edit AMONG the nooks and crannies of the City this has to be a favourite, not least because I worked for several years in the same street – London Wall…
Lambeth , the old bit across the river from the Houses of Parliament, is already starting to buzz and is set to get a serious boost when Damien Hirst’s…
Carlton House Terrace occupies two marvellous rows of Nash-designed stucco houses either side of the Duke of York’s column – but it sits on top of a dirty little…
My curiosity about what happened to the stones from old London Bridge (the one with houses on top which was demolished in the 1830s after lasting over 600 years)…
You could live in London for ever and not stumble across the Innholders Hall, built on the petrified remains of its original home destroyed in the 1666 Great Fire…
The statue on the left can be seen at the far end of Shakespeare’s Garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. partly hidden by the surrounding trees. But it used to be…
One of the unfathomable mysteries of London is deciding what is the oldest pub. It will probably never be solved because it depends on what you mean by “old”.…