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 […]
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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Comments Off on The Wallace Collection – an undisputed gem of London 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 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. […]
Posted in gems, London Tags: Damien Hirst, Garden Museum, Koons, Lambeth Comments Off on Damien does the Lambeth walk
