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• Halfway Railway

  

  The huge Crossrail project, which is digging up or under much of London in order to create a high-frequency, east-west railway, has reached its halfway point. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Croydon's Fishy Facade

  

  W H Smith may have settled for a rather uniform, corporate look today but their earlier shops had interesting and unusual facades. The North End, Croydon... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (107): Chocolat Poulain

  

  The logo looks like a cross between a deer and a dog, and the product name is obscured, so it wasn't easy to identify the brand being advertised in this sign... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (107): Un Mystère

  

  Here's a ghost sign spotted by my father in the town of Noyal, Brittany. It's clearly for chocolate, but which brand? The second line of lettering is too... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Tooting Beauty!

  

  Tooting Broadway's vintage street features are not limited to fine ghost signs. Immediately outside the station is a magnificent cast-iron lamp, serving not... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (106): Tooting Broadway

  

  Turn right out of Tooting Broadway station, and there are two ghost signs in quick succession on Mitcham Road. The first is right next to the lovely Tooting... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Sunset on the Somerset Levels

  

  Somerset Emergency Flood Relief Fund Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Royal Chocolate

  

  Hampton Court Palace has over a thousand rooms, so it's perhaps understandable that sometimes people lose track of them a little. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Deptford, Electricity and Railways

  

  I've added a new page to this site: a small project inspired by a chance eBay purchase. Deptford Power Station, 1912 explores the early history of Deptford Powe... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Somerset Levels Floods

  

  The Somerset Levels were originally covered in water and wetlands, with villages built on higher areas of dry land (the 'zoy' in names like Chedzoy, Middlezoy... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, ENVIRONMENT, HISTORY

• Snack on the Track

  

  After the surprising elegance of the National Railway Museum's Victorian urinal, here's a bit of rather less elegant 1980s nostalgia. Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Railway Relief

  

  This elegant piece of railway cast-iron comes from Curthwaite Station on the Maryport Carlisle Railway. Its purpose may not be obvious at first, but it is in... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (105): Improving with Age

  

  When I photographed this Newington Green ghost sign in 2009, the graffiti were more obvious than the old advertisement. A few days ago, it was looking a little... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ally Pally, People's Palace

  

  After the Great Exhibition of 1851, its Crystal Palace moved to Sydenham and offered Londoners all sorts of educational and entertaining activities. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (104): Puck Matches, Leeds

  

  A colourful sign looks over Harehills Road, Leeds, from Conway Road (not to be confused with neighbouring Conway Drive, Street, Avenue, Mount, View, Grove or... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Fraud and the Press Gang in Deptford

  The Morning Chronicle of 25 January 1812 reported a rather unpleasant deception: A man has resided at Deptford for some time past under the name and title of Si... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Colourful Foreshore

  

  The character of the Thames foreshore changes dramatically as it curves through London. At Rotherhithe - visited last weekend with Jane's London - there is... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• London Ice Sculpting Festival

  

  Chisels and chainsaws to the fore, artists from around the world are taking part in the London Ice Sculpting Festival in Docklands this weekend. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (103): Earlsfield

  

  Just opposite Earlsfield Station in South-West London, two ghost signs are almost facing each other. The first is extremely cryptic: only "S.P.O. " remain... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• London Lights

  

  The festive season is now officially over, but who needs decorations when night-time London looks like this? One of those annoying moments on public transport... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY