The building with an arrow pointing to it on this 1658 map at the corner of Pall Mall and St James’s Street was a royal tennis court built by Henry…
OF ALL the monuments in London, Cleopatra‘s Needle is the most misnamed and misplaced. It is not a needle, it is an obelisk. And it has nothing to do with Cleopatra as…
Seen in St James’ Park (above, right) – a man servicing a gas light, one of a series that still reaches out from the park to The Mall…