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• Braidwood Passage – Nicely Reinvented with Hand-made Tiles

  

  The scaffold has been removed and Braidwood Passage is again available as a link between Aldersgate Street and Cloth Street. It's a delight – and really... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Some Lovely Tiled Panels in Hornsey High Street Have Been Lost to Us

  

  Here we go again. As I am often to be heard saying, nobody demolishes or changes something with the intent to upset us – they really do believe they are... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Feeling Gloomy with Stephen Fry but Uplifted by Hannah Rose Platt at The...

  

  Back in the day (as they say) I used to love popping into The Hunterian Museum at The Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Cannon Lamp Posts

  

  Earlier this month I was busy googling info about St James's Square when this image on eBay cropped up in the search results. Here's a screen shot of that page... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Sad to See The Saloon Sign in Kings Cross Road Has Been Covered Up.

  

  I recently spotted that the old carved and gilded barbershop/hairdresser sign at 205 Kings Cross Road has been replaced with a modern plastic sign. I am... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Society of Portrait Scultors' Fab Selling Exhibition FACE2026 at The Garriso...

  

  The Garrison Chapel is a Grade II listed 1852 church nestled between Pimlico Road and Chelsea Barracks. No longer a working church – it has been converted into... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Konrad Mägi's Gorgeous Paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  

  Those clever curators at Dulwich PG have done it again. This time, Kathleen Soriano (yes, it's that lady from Sky's Landscape/Portrait Artist of the Year... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Camden Passage – a Filming Location for The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1954)

  

  Re-watching this delightful film recently on Talking Pictures, I was convinced that I recognised the location of the shop where she pawns her harp as being in... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Updates to Previous Posts – Loss and Regeneration

  

  I have this morning added some updates to these old posts – click the links above the pics to read the articles and see the pics at larger size:Scratched... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Surely and Quickly With Speed I Strike On Wings Of Fire

  

  On a recent visit to the Grade II listed RAF Club at 128 Piccadilly I was at first intrigued by a pair of narrow vertical windows either side of the door. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Ally Pally's Mis-matched Floor Tiles

  

  Palm Court at Alexandra Palace exhibition halls contains two fountains around which sit Egyptian sphinxes and obelisks. I stopped to admire them when I visited... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Stratton Street Dragons

  

  Stratton Street runs round the back of Green Park Station. At the far left/northern corner, high up on the on No.15 there is a hopper that I have always... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Park Lane and Park Street Discoveries

  

  This is about when you are looking for one thing and you happen upon other delightful stuff along the way.Wandering the streets of Mayfair, planning a route... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Chelsea Distractions - Welcome to My World

  

  Here is a glimpse into my head which might help to explain why I am often asking for multiple parallel universes. One to walk and wander, one to write and... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Private Tour Inside Lambeth Fire Station, London Fire Brigade's Art Deco HQ

  

  A few years back I was lucky to be invited inside the former London Fire Brigade HQ on Albert Embankment designed by EP Wheeler, embellished with works by... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Dr Johnson's Apostrophes Or Apost'rophes

  

  Dr Johnson's House in Gough Square sits within one of a handful of old Georgian courtyards north of Fleet Street. It saddens me that many of the old alleys I... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Two Queens, Two Phoenixes and a Couple of Castles

  

  Earlier this week I alluded to the re-naming of streets, something that became necessary as London expanded, such that a rendezvous arranged in Church Street... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Scratched Doorway in Rugby Street

  

  Have you ever noticed that the brickwork either side of the entrance to 20 Rugby Street, WC1N 3QZ* is slathered in gouges and grooves at approx elbow height? Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Patchwork Platforms and Utter Filth on the London Underground

  

  From delightfully intriguing glazed tiles in my last post to shoddy in less than a mile... Holborn station is the next station along the Piccadilly line from... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• On the Tiles at Russell Square Tube Station

  

  In yesterday's post I mentioned that I have spotted maker's marks on tiled walls. For instance, above street level, Doulton of Lambeth employed various... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2026 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS