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• You Want Best Seats We Have Them (sic)

  

  I spotted a skinny shop threshold in front of 45 Aldwych;The thin strip abuts an unbranded basement lightwell and, when this was a ticket shop, it was possibly... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Interesting Man Hole Covers in Camden – Numbered and Wood-filled

  

  Walking down Parker Street a few weeks ago, on my way to find The Herds* I saw three circular man hole covers at the junction with Newton Street and went to... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Is This the Oldest Building on Oxford Street?

  

  At the eastern end of Oxford Street, between Centrepoint and Soho Square, there remains a patchwork terrace that I'm glad to see has not succumbed to the... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Sticking My Oar in

  

  Here's another one that's been a long time festering in my inbox...At 65 Gresham Street, on the corner of Aldermanbury, there is an office building with blue... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A House in Tudor Street, a Ghostsign in Primrose Hill and a Bit of Fleet Street...

  

  This is about a ghostsign that I have been trying to pin down for years, yet every time I end up going round in circles and I get nowhere, so I am posting it al... Read more

  Posted on 02 July 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Norbury and the High Numbers (no, It's Not a Beat Combo!)

  

  Back in November 2022 I wrote about the 4-figure door numbers in Barnet. Subsequently, I'd had a brief look to see other similarly long roads in Greater London... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Art and Craft in Bloomsbury

  

  On my way from Covent Garden to Cockpit Open Studios on Thursday, I took one of my ‘follow my nose’ detours and turned off Theobald’s Road into Old Gloucester... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Bizarre Bootscraper Installation Near World's End, Chelsea

  

  Last January, whilst cutting through from Kings Rd to Fulham Rd, I stopped in my tracks when I spotted a boot scraper protruding out of a gatepost mid-way... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Better Hearth, 109 Holloway Road – Layers of History Revealed (and Lost)

  

  Better Hearth is a company selling just that, all things to make your fireplace area more attractive and cost-efficient. The shop's header board is an etched... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Shoreditch – Powerful Architecture, Marvellous Metal and a Helping Hand

  

  This actually follows on from this piece I wrote on my Substack – I continued my walk westwards from Norton Folgate towards City Road, entering this part of... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Take a Tour and Find out About the Development Plans for the Earls Court...

  

  Playing catch-up again... I've just rediscovered the photos I took back in mid-February when I attended a tour of the Earl's Court site. I had booked the... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Telegraph Place and Tokenhouse Yard

  

  Hearing Telegram Sam by Marc Bolan on the radio yesterday, it reminded that I'd taken a series of photos in and around Telegraph Place almost a year ago whilst... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Another Vitreous Enamel Sign is Missing in Hoxton

  

  Yesterday, wandering down Hoxton Street and, as I approached its southern end, I stopped to sigh at the old timber merchant's shop where, approx two years ago a... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Kensington Gore – Hot and Cold and Nine Miles from Hounslow

  

  Lowther Lodge, is a lovely GII* red brick building at 1 Kensington Gore, facing Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens as seen here. Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Soho Theatre Opens with Weer in Walthamstow

  

  Last night I was lucky to be invited to attend the first performance at this newly refurbished Art Deco era venue in Hoe Street (thanks Gaby!). Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• More Woodblock Street Surfaces – This Time in Southwark

  

  Marching southwards down Waterloo Road on Sunday, running a little behind schedule to get to the start point of my own guided tour(!) I glanced to my left... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Bricking It Near the Folly on the Foreshore at Cubitt Town, Isle of Dogs

  

  After my visit to The London Museum yesterday to the the Mudlarking exhibition, I felt the need to be in the quiet open space of a foreshore at the water's edge... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Mudlarking Exhibition at the London Museum, Docklands

  

  Yesterday I went to the press preview of the London Museum's latest exhibition. I had my fingers crossed that it might be as excellent as their show about... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Mr Cranston's Waverley Temperance Hotels – a Link Between Edinburgh and London

  

  I've just returned from a long weekend in Edinburgh. Lots of walking. Lots to see. And, of course, I took lots of photos. As I was walking back towards the Old... Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Large Lumps of York Stone Beneath The Duke of York Column

  

  After gravelling around on Horseguards' parade a couple of week's ago, I made my way towards St James's via The Mall and the steps that lead up to The Duke of... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2025 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS