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• Birthday Fun at London Zoo (ZSL)

  

  I share my birthday with many people including Princess Anne, Ben Affleck, Oscar Peterson and Napoloeon Bonaparte but, best of all, with my friends' lovely... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Brunswick Square and Hornsey Road

  

  Compare and contrastI took these snaps within Brunswick Square because I like the patchwork quilt effect and geometrical shapes:Walking along Hornsey Road near... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Walk Along Kings Road (part 2) – The Chelsea Potter, RSoles and The...

  

  This continues from my post on July 24thAn Art Nouveau-esque typeface on the optician's sign uses a cut of Arnold Böcklin by Otto Weisert harking back to the... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Tour and Lunch at Middle Temple Hall

  

  I cannot believe I haven't posted about this earlier as it was way back in April that I did this.Hidden away between Fleet Street and The Embankment is an area... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• College Street and Little Green Street, NW5

  

  Tucked away parallel to Highgate Road, between Kentish Town and Highgate, behind The Vine public house, is a lovely little footpath called College Lane. Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Update on Harpers of Holloway Ghostsign

  

  A few months ago I noticed that scaffolding had gone up all around the Harpers Building on Holloway Road and was covering the old sign for Harpers of Holloway... Read more

  Posted on 07 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Gone but Not Forgotten – G. Smith & Sons, Tobacconist and Purveyor of Snuff

  

  The first of a new series remembering shops and businesses I have known or used myself that have closed down or been demolished in the last few years. Read more

  Posted on 05 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Ghostsign Palimpsest Recalled

  

  I was walking down Canonbury Road last week and I spotted this food trailer parked up on the pavement:It reminded me of this lovely ghostsign palimpsest on Stok... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Whittington Park's Hidden Mural

  

  Whittington Park near Upper Holloway Station is just a short walk from my house. I often go there to sit, meet friends, relax, attend events or just... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Walk Along Kings Road

  

  The groovy shops and cafés of the King's Road in its 1960s heyday have all disappeared but there are a few interesting details along the street that hint at thi... Read more

  Posted on 24 July 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Dirty Millennium Bridge – Here We Go Again

  

  Just like the Golden Jubliee Bridges, the Millennium Bridge's handrails are the only clean bits to be found along the structure as people take in the views... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Cherubic View

  

  As you know, I like to look at the details on buildings. The top deck of a bus often affords a better view and a chance for a few dodgy snapshots complete with... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Westminster Cathedral, the Mother Church

  

  I expected it to be an embarrassing admission telling my friends that up until early June this year I had never before set foot inside Westminster Cathedral*.... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Temperance. Temperance.

  

  From a No29 bus last month I snapped a few pics of the abandoned Temperance Hospital in Hampstead Road, NW1:May 2015This group of once-proud and important... Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Coal Holes of Warwick Square

  

  I was wandering about between Victoria and Pimlico hunting for a bench on which to sit and eat my take-away sandwich and had rather hoped that the garden in... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Clean up of Hanley Road HOVIS Ghostsign

  

  Another ghost sign demise.An old faded hand-painted HOVIS advertisement sits above The Old Dairy public house at the end of Hanley Road in Stroud Green. Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• St James's Market, Piccadilly, SW1

  

  Last week I was wandering down towards Waterloo Place from Piccadilly and noticed that the area that once was St James's Market is surrounded by hoardings and i... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Junction Road Ghostsign Repainted. Grunt.

  

  Every now and then some ill-advised or mis-guided muppet with a vague idea that he/she is preserving history sets to with brush and paint and has a half-arsed... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• The Walthamstow Fragment – an Ionic Conundrum

  

  Outside Vestry House Museum in Walthamstow Village there sits a short column with an Ionic capital.Its irregular shape kept me intrigued for quite some time... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Accentuate the Positive – Three Rather Nice Places to Get off the No.19 Bus

  

  Fancy a pint?Theobalds Road St John StreetHighbury and IslingtonThree nice things – a series by Jane's Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS