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• More Woodblock Street Surfaces – This Time in Southwark

  

  Marching southwards down Waterloo Road on Sunday, running a little behind schedule to get to the start point of my own guided tour(!) I glanced to my left... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Bricking It Near the Folly on the Foreshore at Cubitt Town, Isle of Dogs

  

  After my visit to The London Museum yesterday to the the Mudlarking exhibition, I felt the need to be in the quiet open space of a foreshore at the water's edge... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Mudlarking Exhibition at the London Museum, Docklands

  

  Yesterday I went to the press preview of the London Museum's latest exhibition. I had my fingers crossed that it might be as excellent as their show about... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Mr Cranston's Waverley Temperance Hotels – a Link Between Edinburgh and London

  

  I've just returned from a long weekend in Edinburgh. Lots of walking. Lots to see. And, of course, I took lots of photos. As I was walking back towards the Old... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Large Lumps of York Stone Beneath The Duke of York Column

  

  After gravelling around on Horseguards' parade a couple of week's ago, I made my way towards St James's via The Mall and the steps that lead up to The Duke of... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Broken Glass and Gas Lamps on Horse Guards Road

  

  I'm still writing about the zone between Horse Guards Parade*, St James's Park and The Mall, because there's so much to discover ins such a small space. Scroll... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Railings Made from Wartime Stretchers – Spot One and You'll Start Seeing Them...

  

  In my last post, looking at remnants of woodblocks, I mentioned that I'd been walking through the residential streets in Bermondsey, between Long lane and Tabar... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• More Bits of Woodblock Paving – Bermondsey and Chalk Farm

  

  Walking northward through Camden recently, as I passed the the station and crossed Inverness Street I stopped occasionally to check that these manhole covers... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Eyes of March

  

  Yes, you read that title correctly – this is about Horseguards' Parade (where they march) and some intriguing markers I have espied during this month of March.... Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Small Remnants of Wood Block Road Surface in Shoreditch, EC2

  

  Oooh... I've found +100year-old wood still embedded in our streets.Well, your honour, I was wandering along Scrutton Street, London EC2, heading in a... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Calthorpe Terrace – Ghosts of Bygone Shops in Gray's Inn Road

  

  When I travel along Grays Inn Road on a No17 bus I like to admire this west-facing terrace between Calthorpe Street and Wren Street. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Join The Conversation at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Robert Macfarlane and the...

  

  Last night I sat within one of London's gorgeous churches to listen to hear Robert Macfarlane in conversation with Peter Florence. This forms part of a series o... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Not Bog Standard – Central London's Public Conveniences

  

  We often read that there are hardly any public conveniences in London these days. Campaigners complain that there are scant facilities available to us. We've... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Ringing in the Changes

  

  Brr-ring Brr-ring! Unlike the example shown above in Carey Street at the back of the Law Courts, most of the old red telephone boxes on our streets are no longe... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Gray's Inn Road – Strange Backward-facing Houses, a Water Trough and Another...

  

  I was walking from Russell Square to Kings Cross today and, as I passed by these houses that end at Heathcote Street, I thought it was high time that I shared m... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Sir William Atherton at Kensal Green Cemetery – He's Got Plums!

  

  I do love a wander in a cemetery. I visited all of London's 'Magnificent Seven' last year, some for the first time, others were repeat visits because there's... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Blue Tiled Laundry Shops of Sunlight, Westerns and Loud & Westerns

  

  I've written a few times about shops that used to be laundries/dry cleaners, evident by their blue tiled exteriors, often featuring and promoting Lever Bros'... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Who is Removing the Old Metal Telephone and Telegraph Signs?

  

  Last week, as I wandered along the eastern section of Lillie Road, between North End Road and the vast open space where Earls Court Exhibition Centre used to be... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Wishing You Long Life, Health and Happiness - a Celebration of Longevity

  

  A few days ago, ex-US president Jimmy Carter passed away, having only recently celebrated his 100th birthday on 1st October, and it got me thinking... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2024 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Department of National Heritage – Two Blue Plaques in Holloway, N7*

  

  (Edited from my Substack feed): At the southern end of Tufnell Park Road, N7, almost opposite the Odeon cinema, there are some of Holloway’s oldest houses. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2024 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS