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• Ideals in Industry – a Book About Burton's

  

  Delivering my cards to Oxfam bookshops is a dangerous process – shelves of delicious old antiquarian titles are always beckoning me. Keep away from the books... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• J Davies, Builders' Merchant, 82 Holloway Road (Then and Now Series)

  

  Oh dear I have fallen behind with these Holloway Road comparison photos; it appears the last one I posted was three years ago.OK... I am back on the... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Somewhere Over The Rainbow...

  

  One early evening last September I was walking across the western Golden Jubilee Bridge and it started to rain.A short sharp heavy downfall was followed by a... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Whitecross Street Party This Saturday 16th July

  AKA The Rise of the Non-Conformists – this is a colourful, vibrant, musical event is well worth a visit.I will have a stall there and, in addition to a selectio... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Old Street Observations

  

  Opposite St Luke's on Old Street I noticed many of the terraces have accesses to the rear once used by carts and lorries.That's it. Just an observation. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• FOUND at the Foundling Museum – Curated by Cornelia Parker

  

  Here's interesting... in amongst the lovely historical artefacts and artworks at this small but evocative museum there are exhibits by sixty modern artists... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Halo Tower, Stratford

  

  Wandering along Stratford High Street the other week I stopped to photograph this mosaic depicting a street seller.A Georgian flower sellerI was then... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Markfield Beam Engine – Steaming into Action This Weekend

  

  For many years I have been noticing the brown tourist information signs off the Tottenham one way system that point to Markfield Beam Engine, making a mental... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Coal Hole Covers of North Audley Street

  

  I have for many years been photographing coal hole cover plates on London streets and have amassed quite a collection of different designs made by or depicting... Read more

  Posted on 17 June 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Winifred Knights at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  

  This lovely exhibition in a lovely location displays of the work of the marvelously talented Winifred Knights; an artist, until, last week I had never known... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Crouch End Festival 2016

  

  It's local festival time.North London is awash with them lately, in Caledonian Road, Barnsbury, Highgate, Stroud Green and more. (Go Google... I am feeling... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Kiosks and Shops on London Underground Platforms

  

  St James's Park station sits directly underneath 55 Broadway (see last post below).Coming home on Monday evening at about 7.30pm I noticed the old newspaper... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Tour of 55 Broadway

  

  Earlier this week I joined a group of London Historians for a tour of the Grade I listed 55 Broadway, currently HQ of Transport For London. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Dockers' Mistresses – Something to Come Home to

  

  OK, so you've been at sea and there's been nary a female in sight for months, perhaps even years.So, how nice to come back and hook up with something curvy? Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Black Cap Yard, Camden

  

  The Black Cap public house in Camden High Street now stands empty awaiting a new future since it closed in April 2015.The pub opened in the mid-18th century as... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Nerd Nite London – It's Hip to Be Square

  

  Rubbish pics, but you get the drift. Bottom left is the MoC shopLast month I went to my first Nerd Nite evening at The Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Breast Screening Day – a Cancerous Coincidence

  

  Friday 13th May.This morning I will be at Whittington Hospital having a breast screening.Today is my mother's birthday. She was born on Friday 13th May 1938... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Swain's Lane, Highgate West Hill, Development of Site

  

  I have for many years been keeping my eye on the old garages at the corner of Swain's Lane on Highgate West Hill. It always pleased me that this sinuous low-ris... Read more

  Posted on 11 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Olympian Way, Greenwich, Continued

  

  Ok, so where was I?We'd given up on the foreshore, walked around the O2, seen some dodgy art and attempted to understand the confusing development 'plans' for... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Terry O'Neill Exhibition at Fiat Chrysler Motor Village

  

  Take a detour from your shopping expedition and rather than turn into M S near Marble Arch, instead turn down Orchard Street to the corner of Wigmore Street... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2016 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS