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Posts Tagged ‘Garden Museum’

New gardens for old – meet the new Garden Museum in Lambeth

May 29th, 2017 Vic Keegan

The new garden (above) and the old one (below) The newly revamped Garden Museum, next door to Lambeth Palace, is a triumph of professionalism over history and intimacy. It used to be my favourite place for lunch in the whole of London. You could sit at tables in the garden with overhanging trees, the graves […]

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The Wallace Collection – an undisputed gem of London

October 5th, 2014 Vic Keegan

                          AT AN auction in Paris in 1865 James de Rothschild, the richest man in the world – far richer than Bill Gates is today – was beaten in his bid for a painting which sold for six times  its pre-sale estimate. The […]

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Why London is the bee’s knees

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 […]

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Damien does the Lambeth walk

August 14th, 2012 Vic Keegan

  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 gallery complex opens in 2014. It is already being built (see photo above) though the staff have been told not to say anything about it. […]

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