Spring in the Park Daffodils the park adorn Winter Hawthorn is reborn Willows now are weeping green The robin looks for crumbs unseen Buds unfolding now are free Spring is…
From the York Road end near Waterloo Station it looks like the tradesman’s entrance to Hades. Those of a nervous disposition, or suffering from Brexitphobia, may be better off using…
Phials containing water untouched in 129,000 years LONDON owes its existence to water. Without the Thames there would have been no point in building it. In olden days Westminster –…
If the Thames is the bit of London that most Londoners take for granted then the Thames foreshore is the bit they would also take for granted if only…
Spot the difference – National Gallery . . . Carlton House When old buildings in London were pulled down, the bricks and…
Belstaff boutique (left) with Doric columns dating from 1925 and (right) as it looked in 1877 It is easy to walk past 135/137 New Bond Street – currently a flagship fashion…
The next couple of days – it closes Sunday – afford a rare opportunity to see the innards of Battersea Power Station before it is converted into an £8bn complex…
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,…
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…
55 Pall Mall now . . . and then I HAVE occasionally wondered why 52 Pall Mall looks so different to its neighbours. The answer is…
If ever there were paintings looking for a home it is surely the Government’s own collection of over 13,000 works many of them currently in storage in a back…