The “Dolphin” lamp standards have been burning gas for over 125 years Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the great Victorian engineer, has a very modest memorial. It is embedded in a mausoleum-like…
Trafalgar Square today with King Charles l looking down Whitehall towards his place of execution Nothing is quite what it seems in Trafalgar Square. It is umbilically tied to Nelson’s…
If the Thames is the bit of London that most Londoners take for granted then the Thames foreshore is the bit they would also take for granted if only…
Road works in our street in Victoria to install new electricity cables this week have uncovered part of the entrance to a vast Victorian prison. The old bricks (above) which…
Where to begin? From where you are looking the weather-beaten lawn on the left (above) conceals hundreds of bodies including William Caxton, whose printing works were nearby, Wenceslaus Hollar,…
Spot the difference – National Gallery . . . Carlton House When old buildings in London were pulled down, the bricks and…
All Hallows – looking less hallowed in the shadow of the upwardly mobile “Walkie Talkie” building Walking in the crypt of All Hallows, the oldest church in the City close…
Archaeologists working last week Walbrook (on right under excavations) Of all London’s lost rivers the Walbrook is the lostest. Also, the most fascinating. It flowed – and in some…