To watch a play in the same space – the hall of Gray’s Inn – where it was first staged in 1566, and which has hardly ever been produced since,…
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Tail end of the queue to present grapes The scene could be a British B movie. A warehouse in South London. A chill October morning. Cars arrive. Packages are taken…
100 Union Street Southwark I glimpsed this urban oasis from a train coming from London Bridge (on top of the arches, above) and was soon wandering down Union Street beyond…
All Hallows – looking less hallowed in the shadow of the upwardly mobile “Walkie Talkie” building Walking in the crypt of All Hallows, the oldest church in the City close…
We hear a lot about new tech companies in London but a lot less about vineyard start-ups. So, a warm welcome – and as a vineyard it sure needs a…
Gray’s Inn Hall where Shakespeare probably performed The Inns of Court are London’s most astonishing survivors and also among the least known to most of its citizens. Visiting them –…
Archaeologists working last week Walbrook (on right under excavations) Of all London’s lost rivers the Walbrook is the lostest. Also, the most fascinating. It flowed – and in some…
Not a moment easily to forget. There I was last night standing in the dock in Court Number 1 at the Old Bailey where Dr Crippen, John Reginald Haliday…
The centre of Victoria – including the station and most of Victoria Street – is being torn apart by our good friends at Land Securities. But there remains one…
It is not often that London’s hidden rivers are revealed to the open air in which they once basked – but it has happened momentarily to the Tyburn as…
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…
This imposing Greek styled building in the middle of Mayfair feels more like a gentleman’s club than a scientific institution yet it has a jewel of a museum…
For most of my life – until last week – I had been under the impression that the only sizeable remains of the Seven Wonders of the World were…
Edit AMONG the nooks and crannies of the City this has to be a favourite, not least because I worked for several years in the same street – London Wall…
Gravesend, less than 25 minutes from St Pancras on the new fast train, provides a perfect start for…