January 29th, 2014 
Vic Keegan 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. […]
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Tags: Carlton House, London Bridge, London National Gallery, Old Vic, rolling, Rolling Stones, Savoy Palace, stones, Trafalgar Square 
Comments Off on The Rolling Stones of London January 13th, 2014 Vic Keegan 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 […]
Posted in Art, City, hidden, London Tags: Bond Street, Coutts, electricity, Ferranti, Gallery, Grosvenor, John Ruskin, Lindsay, National Grid, New, Oscar Wllde, Rothschild Comments Off on The art gallery that started the national grid
