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• Ghost Signs (70): Yffiniac

  

  For one small Breton town, Yffiniac has a good selection of ghost signs! Almost inevitably, there is one from Suze in its distinctive yellow and black. Traces o... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Competition Result!

  Thank you to everyone who entered the competition to win Titanic Remembered 1912-2012, and to Carlton Books for generously providing the prize. The correct... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Competition Closing Soon!

  

  The competition to win a copy of Titanic Remembered 1912-2012 closes at midnight tonight (British Summer Time).Win a copy of Titanic Remembered. Just email... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (69): Middlesbrough

  

  My recent holiday began in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, and how better to get in the holiday mood than with an assortment of ghost signs? Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Titanic Remembered 1912-2012

  

  It's near-impossible to avoid the fact that this year is the Titanic's centenary. The number of events and publications marking the anniversary are evidence of... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (68): John Campion, Merchant Taylor

  

  This rather fine sign in Catford is largely obscured by the bank next door. As so often, this isi a mixed blessing: while it is now easy to miss and difficult t... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Equitable House, Woolwich

  

  General Gordon Square in the center of Woolwich is dominated by this building of 1935. It was the headquarters of the Woolwich Equitable Building Society... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Blewcoat Boy

  

  Here's another in my growing collection of school figures. Placed above the doors of schools, they advertised not only the purpose of the building but also the... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ghost Signs (67): Wool & Woollies, Wools

  

  This ghost sign makes up in repetition for what it lacks in detail! Now largely obscured by a hoarding, it still tries to tempt knitters passing along Croydon... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Claims Very Direct

  Is the notion of personal injury compensation a new one? What about the criminal fringes - are false claims, exaggerated claims, indeed pretty much any claims... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Tower Bridge Mortuary

  

  Today, about 50 bodies a year are recovered from the Thames. In the Victorian period, the number was much higher: more river activity and fewer people able to... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Locked up

  

  After it has closed for the day, the Tower of London looks extremely forbidding - and with good reason. It was built as a fortress to protect the monarch from... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• King's Cross Western Concourse

  

  On a Monday morning, King's Cross Station is usually populated by rushing commuters. However, yesterday they were supplemented by photographers: the new... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Transport Backstage

  

  Most museums have storerooms, but if your institution showcases buses, trams and tubes then you need more storage than most. The London Transport Museum has a... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Convoy's Consultation

  

  The developers of Convoy's Wharf, Hutchison Whampoa, are holding a 'community consultation' on Saturday. Details in the flyer are vague and there is no... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• A Fountain of

  

  Queuing for the monthly candlelit evening at Sir John Soane's Museum, I had plenty of time to admire a Victorian fountain just across the road. Read more

  Posted on 12 March 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Owen & Bowen, Depicting Britain

  

  If you needed to make a long journey in eighteenth-century Britain, you might find yourself very grateful to John Owen and Emmanuel Bowen. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2012 CULTURE

• People's Building Society

  

  Above eye level on Lewisham High Street is a reminder of the building society which once had its head office here. The People's Building Society has left equall... Read more

  Posted on 02 March 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Royal Oak, John Street

  

  Doughty Street, Bloomsbury home of the Charles Dickens Museum, becomes John Street a little further south. Sticking out from one of the terraced buildings is a... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Ghost Signs (66): Next Best to New

  

  Among London's street art curiosities are noses placed discreetly on the walls of Soho by artist Rick Buckley. There is a legend that if you see all seven, you... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2012 DESTINATIONS, HISTORY