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• The Sinews of War

  

  It may be best-known for its eighteenth-century collections and The Laughing Cavalier, but the Wallace Collection also has a fantastic armoury collection. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Forgotten Stories

  

  London's Royal Docks have changed drastically since the size of container ships meant that cargo traffic moved to Tilbury. They finally closed to commercial... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (30): Elizabeth Boxall

  

  When Elizabeth Boxall died, ultimately as the result of an injury sustained trying to stop a runaway horse, attention focused not upon her bravery but upon the... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Dinosaur Revival

  

  A few days ago, we heard the news that Crystal Palace's Victorian dinosaurs are to be repaired. Their Friends have produced an entertaining video to explain... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (29): PC Robert Wright

  

  ROBERT WRIGHT, POLICE CONSTABLE OF CROYDON, ENTERED A BURNING HOUSE TO SAVE A WOMAN KNOWING THAT THERE WAS PETROLEUM STORED IN THE CELLAR - AN EXPLOSION TOOK... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Poplar's Festival Estate

  

  The Lansbury Estate in Poplar was designed both as a place to live and as an exhibit in the 1951 Festival of Britain. After the bombing damage of the Second... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (28): William Drake

  

  Hyde Park was long a fashionable place for horse and carriage rides. At the same time, it is surrounded by busy roads, including Park Lane. This was the scene... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Scream. Ice Scream.

  

  Frozen dairy desserts seem to attract the strangest models, and this one on the Breton coast is no exception. While the dessert is more of a dome than the... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (27): Railway Heroism

  

  Walter Peart and Henry Dean were the driver and stoker of the Great Western train known as the Windsor Express. On 18 July 1898, they were driving the 4. Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Looking Down on Brutalism

  

  Sometimes, it's not the highest buildings which offer the best views. 88 Wood Street has 17 floors - pretty high up when you're ascending in its glass-walled... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Past Perfect: Inside Middlesex Hospital Chapel

  

  The last time I saw Middlesex Hospital Chapel, it was a sole survivor marooned in the wasteland of the demolished hospital. This Open House Weekend, I saw it... Read more

  Posted on 21 September 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (26): Facts and Figures

  

  Although every story on the Watts Memorial has its own interest, there are certain causes of death which appear again and again. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ticket to Dismaland

  

  Banksy's 'bemusement park' in Weston-Super-Mare lives up to the excitement. There's art everywhere: galleries, installations, giant sculptures made of lorries... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (25): Joseph William Onslow

  

  Reynolds's Newspaper reported on the death of Joseph William Onslow. He worked as a lighterman: that is, a boatman who carried goods from cargo ships to shore. Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (118): Curtain Road

  

  Pizza Express in Shoreditch occupies a building formerly used as workshops for furniture-making. A rather faded trace remains: the words above the right-hand... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (24): Ernest Benning

  

  On 25 August 1883, Ernest Benning and three companions went by boat (a small skiff) to Kew. They made their way back that evening. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Happy Anniversary, London Historians!

  

  If you're a regular reader of this blog, you've probably noticed a few times that I've visited places thanks to London Historians. Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (23): Richard Farris

  

  Both the report in Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper and the memorial tile in Postman's Park treat this story as straightforward. Richard Farris dived into the Surrey... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• The Empty Lake

  

  A pretty pastoral scene in Brittany ... except there's something not right about those trees.A jetty leads nowhere.Landing stages stretch out into the void. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Postman's Park (22): Joseph Andrew Ford

  

  We have already seen that the escape ladders operated by the London Fire Brigade were not infallible: George Lee had died in 1876 when his broke. Read more

  Posted on 09 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY