The Tudor wine cellar of Cardinal Wolsey – later snatched by Henry VIII along with the rest of Wolsey’s York Palace when the cardinal failed to get the monarch a divorce – is one of London’s […]
When Charles Dickens called the streets around Old Pye Street (south of today’s Victoria Street) “The Devil’s Acre” he knew what he was talking about. Several other parts of London could claim to be the […]
If you stroll over Westminster Bridge to the eastern end of St Thomas’ Hospital – near where the Florence Nightingale Museum now is – you will be standing on the site of the world’s first […]
It is difficult to believe, but London was once protected by a vast ring of fortifications, which have completely vanished. It is without question the largest bit of Lost London ever found – or rather […]
Few things are taken more for granted by Londoners than the foreshore of the River Thames. It is lost not only in memory but also in real time twice daily as the tidal river rises […]
For centuries the Fishmongers’ Hall on the north side of London Bridge was the tallest secular building in London. Look at it now! It is more like one of the smallest as it gets lost […]
Many years ago I worked in the City office of the Guardian newspaper in Salisbury House, between London Wall and the lovely garden of Finsbury Circus. I had no idea until decades later, when I […]
On December 28 1594 a play was performed in the hall of Gray’s Inn, one of the four Inns of Court, by what the hall’s diary described as “a company of base and common players”. After […]
This tiny bit of masonry on the wall of the Real Greek restaurant on Bankside near the Globe Theatre is all that remains to remind us of what was once London’s biggest workforce and one […]
On March 15, 1927, the choir of Temple Church recorded O For The Wings Of A Dove by Felix Mendelssohn with a 15-year-old boy called Ernest Lough as the soloist. Young Ernest is believed to […]
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