These four granite slabs under the bench came from John Rennie’s London Bridge which was opened in 1831, demolished in the early 1970s and then sold to an American entrepreneur…
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June 2012
Duck Island on the lake in St James’s Park is a cottage with what looks like the most expensive allotment in London as its garden. But nothing is what it…
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…
Those archaeologists at the Museum of London certainly know how to keep a secret. As soon as I learned of the discovery of the remains of The Curtain theatre this…
Few people are “larger than life” like the Duke of Wellington, victor at the Battle of Waterloo, twice Prime Minister in the 1820s and 1830s nd coiner of…