Spring in the Park Daffodils the park adorn Winter Hawthorn is reborn Willows now are weeping green The robin looks for crumbs unseen Buds unfolding now are free Spring is…
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…
In a city that takes pride in burying its history, the nondescript office building at 100 Pall Mall, sandwiched between the Reform and RAC clubs, takes some beating. On…
55 Pall Mall now . . . and then I HAVE occasionally wondered why 52 Pall Mall looks so different to its neighbours. The answer is…
If ever there were paintings looking for a home it is surely the Government’s own collection of over 13,000 works many of them currently in storage in a back…
The centre of Victoria – including the station and most of Victoria Street – is being torn apart by our good friends at Land Securities. But there remains one…
It is not often that London’s hidden rivers are revealed to the open air in which they once basked – but it has happened momentarily to the Tyburn as…
Carlton House Terrace occupies two marvellous rows of Nash-designed stucco houses either side of the Duke of York’s column – but it sits on top of a dirty little…
Seen in St James’ Park (above, right) – a man servicing a gas light, one of a series that still reaches out from the park to The Mall…