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• Ghostsigns in Goldhawk Road, W12

  

  Last week I wrote about a ghost sign in Uxbridge Road and said I'd find out more info about some of the others in that area.Starting at Ravenscourt Park... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• BBC TV Centre – Tiletastic!

  

  Last week I went with my friend to be part of the audience for a panel show recordingw. We arrived to found hundreds of people; the queues were way too long. Read more

  Posted on 26 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Players Cigarettes Ghostsign Near Shepherd's Bush Green

  

  Isn't it strange how you can walk or drive up and down a road for decades, even go on many hunts for old signage and the like, yet never notice a something as... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Impressive Slabs of York Stone Paving

  

  Last September I wrote about the variety of coal hole cover plates in a specific area of Marylebone and within that I made mention of some very large pieces of... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Wood Block Paving in Camden (Part 4 in a Series)

  

  You might have already seen my posts about remnants of wood block paving still in situ in today's roads. See here. This kind of surface was implemented to... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Whitby's of Acton – a Ghostsign for the Garage

  

  Aha! As I had suspected... the ghost sign facing East along The Vale in Acton, W3, that I alluded to a few weeks ago in my post about Christmas Day, is indeed... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Parliament Square – Coal Holes and Thieves

  

  Have you ever spotted the coal hole cover plates around the edge of Parliament Square?Dark pics taken on a January evening. We take for granted that this open... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• M. Walker & Sons, Tanners, Vinegar Yard, Bermondsey

  

  For years – actually at least two decades now – I have been revisiting a ghosted hand-painted sign that overlooks Vinegar Yard in Bermondsey, here, to see if I... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Charles Herbert Tidman, Optician in Stockwell

  

  I just pulled together a montage of some of the nice things I spotted in the Wandsworth and Vauxhall area last week, and added it to that post see here. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Overground to Willesden Junction and Harlesden in the Rain

  

  I had an appointment in Kentish Town on Wednesday 28th December at 10am. I took the 29 bus from Holloway and got off at Camden Town Station. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Boxing Day 2022 – Holloway to Highgate, Clapham to Vauxhall

  

  Happy new year people. Where did 2022 go?!I am here catching up with my travels this past week. On Boxing Day, 26 Dec 2022, after a day spent admiring Art Deco... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2023 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Christmas Day 2022 Looking at Art Deco Architecture and Ghosts of the Past

  

  I hope you spent Christmas Day doing something that makes you happy, because I surely did.A friend picked me up in his car and we headed to NW London where we a... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• More Wood Blocks Street Paving in London and Further Afield (part 3)

  

  In April 2021 I wrote piece about areas of wood block paving still visible in London. These I'd found mostly in the Clerkenwell, Islington, old Finsbury and... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Save Kings Cross Coach Station from Demolition!!

  

  Earlier this week I was walking towards Kings Cross Station along Euston after attending a talk at the British Library. I was horrified to look across the road... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Holloway Road, The Oxford Street of The North*

  

  I moved to Holloway over three decades ago. Back then there was a good selection of shops – well-known high street names mixed in with a healthy range of... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Finchley High Road – the Longest Road in London...?

  

  Watching the world go by from the top deck of a No.263 to High Barnet, I happened to notice that the street numbers along the High Road, A1000, are in the high... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• A Portal to Iceland Through a Record Shop in Soho – 28–30th October – FREE!

  

  For three days only, experience Iceland in Soho. Icelandair have created a below ground experience, bringing you the land of ice and fire, accessed via a door a... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• How to Lift a Coal Hole Cover Plate – a Dilemma

  

  I have often pulled together collections of coal hole cover plates showing how diverse the range of designs can be. Most of them sport a pattern on them, often... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Colourful Islington Shops

  

  Walking along Camden Passage, Angel, Islington, on Sunday, I stopped between two colourful shops that face each other and mused how the zeitgeist at the moment... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS

• Sekforde Street Doorways and Fanlights

  

  Walking down Sekforde Street again recently, I stopped to admire the lovely coloured glass fanlights above the doors at numbers 31 and 32. Ooh. Nice. Read more

  Posted on 26 September 2022 CULTURE, DESTINATIONS