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 […]
Somerset House – nowadays a vibrant creative centre – was constructed in the 1770s on the site of an earlier Tudor palace built by the rapacious – it’s not too strong a word – Edward […]
Vauxhall Bridge definitely qualifies as a hidden gem, though you would never think so from walking across its mundane, deteriorating surface. It is almost designed not to be appreciated, because you can’t easily see its […]
London used to be surrounded by a wall that was built by the Romans around 200 AD and had later medieval additions. That very old London still is. But the wall has got lost and you have […]
It may not look much, but this brutalist BT building, Baynard House, which City workers pass by oblivious of its history, is a scheduled ancient monument. It is interesting not for what you see but […]
If you are having lunch – and why not? – at the delightful Garden Museum in Lambeth, very close to Lambeth Palace, you can peer through its large glass window at two majestic tombs in the […]
London has lots of hidden gems but there are few more curious than a large stained glass window in St Margaret’s Church, a few yards from Parliament Square. It is a beautiful work of Flemish artistry […]
Queenhithe Dock is not much to look at, surrounded as it is on three sides by office blocks, and the wonder is that it is there at all. On a bad day it could be […]
The wonderful Middle Temple (nearest station, Temple) is not lost, just difficult to get into except when events are held there or there is an open day – or if you happen to be a […]
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