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• New Views of Crossness Pumping Station

  

  Crossness Pumping Station is one of those amazing places that are always worth revisiting. It looks pretty snazzy outside, but inside will consistently take you... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2024 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Signs Through Time: Along the A10

  

  A quick look at changing styles of street signs, all from a stroll along the main road from Dalston Junction to Stoke Newington stations. Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2024 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Baker Street's Posters from the Past

  

  Baker Street Station is one of the oldest on London's Underground. It was one of the seven stations on the first line, the Metropolitan, which opened in 1863. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2024 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Myths in Concrete

  

  In Rainham Marshes, at the edge of the Thames, lie strange and abandoned craft. These odd survivors are concrete barges, stranded by the shore and surrounded... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Bains De Chateaudun

  

  I'm very fond of this Paris facade, on the rue du Faubourg Montmartre. It advertises hydrotherapy at the Chateaudun Baths, now long gone. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Seeds of Success

  

  If you don't know this building in St Albans, you might not guess its original purpose. The best clue is perhaps not the stained glass, or the curved gables, bu... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Inside the Chapel Dome: Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich

  

  The elegant buildings of the Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich are a familiar landmark beside the Thames, and the stunning interiors of the Painted Hall and... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (143): York Found and - Nearly - Lost Again

  

  Piccadilly in York is less fancy than its London counterpart, but full of interest. If you look carefully, you can even spot the large and bright ghost sign... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Bath Humane Society: a History and an Ode

  

  Alongside the Kennett and Avon Canal in Bath is Top Lock Cottage, a former canal lock-keeper's cottage. It also used to hold rescue equipment on behalf of the... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Elizabeth Line: Behind the Barriers at Tottenham Court Road

  

  With the Elizabeth Line/Crossrail project due to open to passengers next week, here is a sneak preview of what's behind the barriers at the Tottenham Court... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Molly and Morris

  

  If you walked down Deptford High Street, through the market and towards the station, on 11 December then you would have seen Fowler's Molly Dancers performing i... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• The Adventure of the Christmas Bubble

  

  Season's greetings! And something a little different this year: a detective story, written during last year's lockdown Christmas. Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Cutty Sark Updated!

  

  If you look at the figurehead of the Cutty Sark at Greenwich, you may notice that she looks shiny and new. Indeed, Nannie - the cutty sark-wearing main characte... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• A Saint and a Scandal

  

  Between two shopfronts on Fleet Street is the entrance to Saint Bartholomew House, an office building. It has some rather fine details: not only a metal sign... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Durham Cathedral: Seeking Sanctuary

  

  The rather demonic-looking monster might seem an unlikely face to find on the door of Durham Cathedral. The metal knocker was designed to deter evil from the... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Porlock Hill's Listed AA Box

  

  The AA box was once a familiar sight to Britain's motorists. When cars were both less numerous and more unreliable, these distinctive black and yellow structure... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Tin Boxes, Trade Unions, and Tiling

  

  This Deptford sign is so bright and colourful that it is almost surprising to find the company A G Scott made something as prosaic as tin boxes! Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (143): Ghost Bus Stops

  

  These ghost signs are rather unusual: they are not signs for businesses but for bus stops. They also have rather more barbed wire and broken glass above them... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• International Hall

  

  On Lansdowne Terrace, Bloomsbury, is a large hall of residence for University of London students. International Hall was opened in 1962, and remains a major hal... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• London Ghost Signs Get Their Book!

  

  If, like me, you love both ghost signs and books then you have probably felt the lack of a dedicated volume on London's signs. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2021 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY