October 12th, 2015 
Vic Keegan A last look at a very special garden THE GARDEN MUSEUM and its amazing café – my favourite place in the whole of London to have a quiet lunch – is closing on Wednesday until 2017. I had my last nostalgic meal there today (it is adjacent to Lambeth Palace) and mourned with others over […]
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Tags: Ashmoleum, captain bligh, garden, gourmet, john, Lambeth, Museum, Oxford, St Mary's, Tradescant, vegetarian 
Comments Off on Destruction of a unique London garden – by the garden gurus February 16th, 2015 Vic Keegan (Damien Hirst’s Gallery) THE OLD PART of Lambeth, just south of Lambeth Bridge, still has a claim to be one of the few undiscovered parts of central London. But not for much longer. Damien Hirst’s new gallery is nearing completion in Newport Street and is likely to attract crowds of newcomers to this neglected part […]
Posted in London Tags: Brunswick, Damien Hirst, Doulton, garden, Lambeth, Museum, Palace, Vauxhall. Beaconsfield Comments Off on Four gems of Lambeth – and a fifth to come September 8th, 2013 Vic Keegan Beehives on some of the most expensive square footage in London at Fortnums in Piccadilly There are more bees than people in London but they don’t seem to have such a housing problem as I found out during our day excursion to some of the capital’s apiaries. Our Bee Day started off in the total […]
Posted in London Tags: bees, captain bligh, fortnum, garden, Garden Museum, honey london, mason, mutiny on the bounty, physic garden Comments Off on Why London is the bee’s knees December 5th, 2012 Vic Keegan 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 which lead you not only to England’s oldest garden (above, right) but also to the oldest door in the country (above, left), built for Edward […]
Posted in City, gems, hidden, London, My London Tags: garden, London, oldest, thorney island, westminster abbey Comments Off on Britain’s oldest door on the way to England’s oldest garden
