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• Making History Books

  

  Obviously, I need no persuading on the value of local history; but I do love new ways of exploring it. One of the most creative is artist Amy Lord's The Takeawa... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Down the Drainpipe

  

  This is one of the most wonderful drainpipes and hoppers I've noticed. It's on the main post office in York, which is a rather nice Victorian building... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 DESTINATIONS

• Earl's Court: Reliefs and Reinforced Concrete

  

  Built in just two years despite being located over railway lines, Earl's Court Exhibition Centre opened with the Chocolate and Confectionery Exhibition on 1... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Boundaries

  

  This boundary post on Vesta Road, Telegraph Hill marks the historic border between Kent and Surrey. In the long years since county boundaries have been... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 DESTINATIONS

• York's Public Clocks

  

  Like London's, York's streets are well-supplied with clocks for the use of passers-by. Here are some favourites noticed on recent visits. The street facade of S... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Bell Yard Clock

  

  Public clocks are a common, if treasured, sight in our cities but this example at Bell Yard always looks a little random and surprising to me. Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Orphans and Engines

  

  Charity collecting boxes need to attract the attention of potential donors. Some do so by their location, placed strategically next to a till for example; other... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Prince Frederick's Barge

  

  If you want an elaborate showstopper of a ceremonial barge, you want the right designer. Thus, when Frederick Prince of Wales had his built in 1732 he didn't pu... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2012 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Top Five of 2011

  

  To end the year, here's a quick review of this site's most popular posts of 2011.In fifth place was London, 1940s: a look at post-war London in film. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Smithfield Market Trains

  

  There has been a market at Smithfield for over 800 years, but the current building was opened in 1868. Among the reasons for rebuilding was the provision of... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Navigating Christmas

  

  When the shops are closed, tubes and buses aren't running, and no one can agree what to watch on TV, it's time to turn to the internet for seasonal... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• St Katharine by the Tower

  

  Around St Katharine's Docks are a number of mooring bollards, topped with this attractive design. It reads 'St Katharine by the Tower' and has an image of the... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• London to Hove

  

  This detail is from the porte cochere at the front of Hove railway station. It's on the London to Brighton line, but there's an even stronger London connection... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Deptford Copperas

  

  Copperas Street is a topographical reminder of one element in Deptford's industrial past. Copperas manufacture began here in the seventeenth century and... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2011 CULTURE, HISTORY

• Romilly in Russell Square

  

  In the eighteenth-century, so many offences carried the death penalty that the criminal law of the period is known as the 'Bloody Code'. The population might... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Wintry Wisley

  

  Described by the Royal Horticultural Society as their flagship garden, Wisley in Surrey is full of interest even in the depths of December. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Peterboats

  

  Many thanks to ChrisP of Ornamental Passions - and Rowing for Pleasure - for identifying the boat in Tull's terracotta sign as a peterboat. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2011 DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• London Christmas Lights

  

  The best Christmas lights in London are to be found away from Oxford Street and Regent Street. I explored some of them last night with Westminster Walking -... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY

• Ratcliffe Highway Murders

  Today is the 200th anniversary of a particularly grisly crime: the Ratcliffe Highway murders. In what was then one of the seediest dockland districts, draper... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 HISTORY

• Frederic David Mocatta, Victorian Philanthropist

  

  Among the many public drinking fountains in the City of London is this example outside St Botolph's, Aldgate. Dated 1909, it has a carved inscription bearing th... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2011 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS, HISTORY