Secret London History – The lost past of St James’s Park station The former Niagara panorama and ice rink turned garage It is well known that Petty France, by St…
The Abbey seen from the shadowy garden When Francis Bacon wrote: “God almighty first planted a garden” it was in 1627 some 600 years after the creation of the nearest…
VISITORS to the House of Commons usually make a beeline for the central lobby without taking much notice of the great hall (above) they have to pass through first, a…
OF ALL the monuments in London, Cleopatra‘s Needle is the most misnamed and misplaced. It is not a needle, it is an obelisk. And it has nothing to do with Cleopatra as…
WHEN YOU look at the Norman Shaw building on the Embankment next to Westminster Tube station (below, left) it is difficult to envisage it as the grandest opera house in Europe.…
Is there any other part of London that packs so much history into so small a space? The few square metres on which the statue of Charles 1 stands in…
Westminster Palace Hotel (left) and Royal Acquarium (right) Imperial Theatre Few London scenes have changed…
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,…
There are few places in central London that are more unrecognisable from their past than this little trodden backwater of Lambeth, a stone’s throw from St Thomas’s Hospital…