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• I Finally Made It to Clerkenwell Design Week – CDW2023

  

  This year I finally made it to Clerkenwell Design Week. A silly name seeing as it’s only three days Tues-Thurs, but hey. I’ve missed it many times in the past... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Remembering Andreas Michli & Son

  

  I was out and about wandering* along and through the back streets of Harringay/Haringey recently. After delivering a framed print to an address in the Hornsey... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• William Leonard Jordan's Department Store and Alfie's Antiques

  

  Last Thursday I had an idea to go and see the Julian Opie show at The Lisson Gallery. I peeked in through the window and decided to return later in the afternoo... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  

  Dulwich Picture Gallery has done it again, as I don't think I have ever been to one of their shows and thought 'so what?' The latest show is a fabulously curate... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Loss of Old Tiled Interior at 274 St Pauls Rd, Islington

  

  Last year I wrote about some remnants of tiles and signage along a stretch of the eastern end of St Paul's Rd, IslingtonOne shop I talked about was No. Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• On the Tiles Again

  

  Another set of six images of tiles to be found taken within or or near to the ticket halls of some London Transport tube stationsCan you identify any of them? Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• More Wood Black Paving – Kentish Town, Brixton and Clerkenwell (Part 5 in a...

  

  I'm returning to wood block paving again, because I've found a few more patches that I'd like to share with you and add to the list. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Unusual and Endangered Animals at the Natural History Museum

  

  I was out and about two Sundays ago and it was really biting cold out there so, rather than go home and wait for the house to warm up, I headed for Museumland... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Colourful and Creative Bermondsey – Kaffe Fassett at The Fashion and Textile...

  

  On a whim yesterday afternoon, suddenly finding I had a free afternoon and not wanted to spend it indoors in front of a screen (like I am doing now, oh the... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• On the Tiles on London Transport

  

  This is the first in a collection of six square-format snaps of some of interesting tiles and details within or adjacent to the ticket halls on the TfL network. Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Ghostsigns in Goldhawk Road, W12

  

  Last week I wrote about a ghost sign in Uxbridge Road and said I'd find out more info about some of the others in that area.Starting at Ravenscourt Park... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• BBC TV Centre – Tiletastic!

  

  Last week I went with my friend to be part of the audience for a panel show recordingw. We arrived to found hundreds of people; the queues were way too long. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Players Cigarettes Ghostsign Near Shepherd's Bush Green

  

  Isn't it strange how you can walk or drive up and down a road for decades, even go on many hunts for old signage and the like, yet never notice a something as... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Impressive Slabs of York Stone Paving

  

  Last September I wrote about the variety of coal hole cover plates in a specific area of Marylebone and within that I made mention of some very large pieces of... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Wood Block Paving in Camden (Part 4 in a Series)

  

  You might have already seen my posts about remnants of wood block paving still in situ in today's roads. See here. This kind of surface was implemented to... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Whitby's of Acton – a Ghostsign for the Garage

  

  Aha! As I had suspected... the ghost sign facing East along The Vale in Acton, W3, that I alluded to a few weeks ago in my post about Christmas Day, is indeed... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Parliament Square – Coal Holes and Thieves

  

  Have you ever spotted the coal hole cover plates around the edge of Parliament Square?Dark pics taken on a January evening. We take for granted that this open... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• M. Walker & Sons, Tanners, Vinegar Yard, Bermondsey

  

  For years – actually at least two decades now – I have been revisiting a ghosted hand-painted sign that overlooks Vinegar Yard in Bermondsey, here, to see if I... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Charles Herbert Tidman, Optician in Stockwell

  

  I just pulled together a montage of some of the nice things I spotted in the Wandsworth and Vauxhall area last week, and added it to that post see here. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Overground to Willesden Junction and Harlesden in the Rain

  

  I had an appointment in Kentish Town on Wednesday 28th December at 10am. I took the 29 bus from Holloway and got off at Camden Town Station. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS