September 23rd, 2014 
Vic Keegan Is there any other part of London that packs so much history into so small a space? The few square metres on which the statue of Charles 1 stands in Trafalgar Square is chiefly known today as the central point of London from which all distances are measured. It is also the oldest surviving reminder […]
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Tags: charing, Charing Cross, Charles 1, Charles 11, square, trafalgar, Westminster, Whitehall, Wrenn 
Comments Off on The history of 5 square metres in Trafalgar Square April 2nd, 2014 Vic Keegan The Tate and Lyle refinery at Silvertown It started as one of my walks from Trafalgar Square without crossing a road. Taking up where I left off last time at the Millennium Dome I headed past Antony Gormley’s beautiful Quantum Cloud sculpture with its spasmodically visible man (himself) which provides an unintended counter point to the […]
Posted in City, gems, London, My London Tags: ecology, foot, Lyle, park, Path, Silvertown, square, sugar, Tate, tate gallery, Thames, Thames Barrier, trafalgar, tunnel, without crossing a road, Woolwich Comments Off on What happened when Mr Tate didn’t meet Mr Lyle March 24th, 2014 Vic Keegan Westminster Palace Hotel (left) and Royal Acquarium (right) Imperial Theatre Few London scenes have changed as little as Parliament Square with the Commons and Westminster Abbey preserved in aspic. But looking west from the abbey towards Victoria Street (above, left) […]
Posted in City, gems, hidden, London Tags: Cream, Crystal palace, Gandhi, George Robey, Imperial Theatre, Methodist Hall, Neil, Palace, Parliament, poison, Royal Acquarium, serial killer, square, Thomas, Tolstoy, Victoria, Westminster, westminster abbey Comments Off on The other Crystal Palace – in Victoria Street December 1st, 2013 Vic Keegan Georgian London, as Dan Cruickshank tells us, was partly constructed from the ill-gotten gains of the sex industry. But a shameful amount of the rest was built from the profits of the slave trade as can be seen on the slavery map of London compiled by researchers at University College, London (above). For some years […]
Posted in hidden, London, My London Tags: Bloomsbury, Cruickshank, estate, Georgian, London, sex, slavery, square, UCL. Portman, University College Comments Off on The Slavery Map of London
