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• A. Freeman, Horse Dealer, Pentonville Road

  

  If you go the gates with the flipped letters on Mayward House on Pentonville Road, next door to The Crafts Council, you will see a driveway leading to Freeman... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Camden Highline – a Linear Park Between Camden and Kings Cross

  

  Last month I went on a tour to find out more about this innovative crowd-funded project to turn the disused railway lines that abut the Overground railway in NW... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Congress House, Dyott Street

  

  Last week I paid £10 to go on a 'tour' of Congress House, the modernist building created on the corner of Great Russell Street and Dyott Street for the TUC. Read more

  Posted on 11 September 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Marlborough Theatre, Holloway

  

  A marvellous theatre, designed by the prolific Mr Frank Matcham and built in 1903, used to stand in Holloway Road on the west side of the street, almost opposit... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Angel Canal Festival 2008 – Sunday September 2nd

  

  Wow! Where did the year go?Angel Canal Festival is upon us again.This colourful one-day event happens on and around City Road Lock and Basin with lots to see an... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Drink Prosecco on the Regents Canal and Save the Swans

  

  On Saturday 15th September 12-2pm, please come and join us for a 2-hour boat trip on Freda, one of Hidden Depths' narrow boats. Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Holloway Leather Stores – Lovely Carved Wooden Shop Sign Reveal in N7

  

  Look what I noticed last week...A shop at 229 Holloway Road is at the moment empty and available for rent through local agent Drivers Norris. Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Goodbye Highbury Corner Roundabout

  

  Have you seen what's been going on at Highbury Corner recently?It's turned into Islington's version of Diggerworld expect that the machines don't seem to have... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Sun Street and The Flying Horse

  

  Demolition and reconstruction. Will it never end?And this I saw it coming for years....Sun Street runs behind the Broadgate complex just north of near... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Gardners in Spitalfields on a Sunny Saturday

  

  149 Commercial StreetThis shop, just along from Spitalfields Market, always brings a smile to my face. And especially so on such a gloriously sunny day. Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Things That Divide Us. Pilastercide.

  

  The pilasters that divide shops help delineate where one shop ends and the next one starts. 100 years a lot of marvellous effort went into designing and creatin... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• In Wall Post Box

  

  You might recall that last year I wrote about the loss of the cute little Victorian in-wall letter box that used to be at Upper Holloway Station. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Marks & Spencer Holloway Road Closing in 2019

  

  M S have just announced the closure of some of their stores across the UK and this will include my local branch in Holloway Rd, shown here. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Anaglypta

  

  I have started another collection...Today I bring you some examples of Anaglypta wallpaper.It was quite expensive in its Victorian-Edwardian heyday and was... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Basement Art

  

  A few months ago I went to The London Art Fair in the basement of Victoria House. That's the enormous building that looms over the eastern side of Bloomsbury... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Men with No Hands and Legs in N4

  

  This might be deemed a bit flippant considering the stretch of pavement I am about to refer to has become a makeshift shelter for homeless men (and women? Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Strowger Automatic Telephone System

  

  All this looking up, looking down, looking around me means I am forever spotting 'new' old things.Last Spring I spotted a small cover plate that had some... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• My Old GT6 Mk2 is Still on the Road – a Reunion at the Classic Carboot Sale

  

  On Saturday afternoon I went for a mooch around the Classic Carboot Sale at Kings Cross. I have traded there in the past but this time I thought I'd have a... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• My Idea for How Edward Johnston Came up with the Design for the London...

  

  Just over a hundred years ago London Transport realised it was lacking a visual identity. One of the key things the company needed was a logo and this came to b... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• London Transport Museum, Acton Depot

  

  Yesterday I spent a lovely afternoon wandering around the London Transport Museum's second site at Acton.The first time I went there was almost ten years ago... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2018 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS