Spot the difference – National Gallery . . . Carlton House When old buildings in London were pulled down, the bricks and stonework didn’t just walk away. They often lived on in other buildings. It is one of the ways the city preserves continuity with its past. […]
Archive for January, 2014
The art gallery that started the national grid


Belstaff boutique (left) with Doric columns dating from 1925 and (right) as it looked in 1877 It is easy to walk past 135/137 New Bond Street – currently a flagship fashion shop for Belstaff – without having any inkling that it helped to launch two disparate revolutions in the nineteenth century when it was known as […]