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• Drapers' Hall – a Guided Tour

  

  This follows on neatly from last week's post about Cutlers' Hall. Last month I met up with a group from London Historians for a guided tour of Drapers' Hall. Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Villa in Hawley Road – RIP

  

  For decades I have been watching the decline of a lovely old villa in Hawley Road at the junction of Kentish Town Road, opposite Quinn's public house.Top left i... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Cutlers' Hall – a Guided Tour

  

  Back in February I joined a group of London Historians for an illuminating and often amusing guided tour of Cutlers' Hall led by The Beadle, David Hasler (middl... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• You Can Wash Your Hands

  

  I live near the Emirates Stadium, home to Arsenal football club.It means nothing to me except that I sometimes have to change my journey if I need to use the... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Accentuate the Positive – Three More Nice Things Along the No.19 Bus Route

  

  Faces in Clerkenwell Road George at St George's, BloomsburyScreens on Battersea BridgeThree nice things – a series by Jane's London Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Oxford Street Gillette Ghostsign RIP

  

  You may recall that back in 2012 I wrote about an old hand-painted Gillette advertisement I spotted on Oxford Street, created by Harvey Sons of Fleet Street... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Developing City

  

  Back in September 2012 I went to an exhibition about the past, present and future of architecture in London. It was called The Developing City and I took some... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Save Norton Folgate – Some Artist's Impressions

  

  This is an update to a post I wrote about the Norton Folgate plans.These are from Google Streetview available today:I took these photos at an exhibition in... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Changes at Highbury and Islington Roundabout

  

  What a mess it is at the roundabout these days.OK, so the old ugly Post Office building is to be demolished and a new station concourse is in the making, but a... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Classic Carboot Sale Returns to the Southbank This Weekend

  

  Two days of cars and collectables, good music, great shopping, yummy food and drink, and dancing too.Next to Hungerford Bridge and Jubilee Bridges, near the... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Institute of Sexology – Undress Your Mind

  

  Currently at The Wellcome Collection – an informative exhibition about sex. Ooer missus.You'll find cabinets of beautiful and bizarre curiosites from around... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• These Boots Are Made for Walking

  

  One Saturday morning last month I joined one of Walk London's free Winter Wanders Weekend Walks. The tour I'd chosen was St Paul's - The Secret Corners of the... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Some Battersea Village Observations

  

  After our foreshore forage we stood a while in the garden of St Mary's Church. We admired the building and I noticed and liked how the moss on a gravestone... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Paper Chase

  

  At the moment Centrepoint is swathed in netting and surrounded by scaffold and boarding, LRT's homogenous new Tottenham Court Station is partially open,... Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Hampstead Heath Ponds

  

  Last Sunday 9th Jen organised a wander around Hampstead Heath. When I met the group I noticed everyone was carrying great big cameras. Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Sing Little Foxy, Sing For Your Life

  

  As you know I am a keen recycler and I hate to see waste. So a taxidermy roadkill musical sits right up my proverbial alley.Some non-singing archtectural foxy... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Nicholls & Clarke, Norton Folgate

  

  I have always admired the clock on the imposing building that used to be the home of Nicholls Clarke sanitaryware and ironmongery on Norton Folgate, and had... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Find the Fake at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  

  Become an art sleuth.One of the 270 paintings in the permanent collection is a Chinese replica that has been commissioned by the gallery in conjunction with Dou... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Customs House Foreshore

  

  Every now and then I like to go on an organised foreshore forage led by an archaeologist. Last month I visited the Customs House section with a group from Londo... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Reading, Writing and Phonetics

  

  Apparently the UK's school kids are having trouble writing the English Language, especially words with silent letters. If you click that link you'll see they... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS