The Chapter House of Westminster Abbey, arguably, is the most important small building in the country. It is interesting enough in its own right before looking at what happened later.…
. . . . . . . OLDNESS is not what it seems. I have walked passed Westminster Abbey for decades thinking it was a bastion of medieval solidity. Not…
A few of the dozens of pineapples on railings in the area around Devonshire Street PINEAPPLES, ever since Christopher Columbus came across them in Guadeloup in 1493, have been a…
Westminster Palace Hotel (left) and Royal Acquarium (right) Imperial Theatre Few London scenes have changed…
Jewel Tower The Abbey Part of Whitehall Palace revealed by road works You won’t find any travel brochures luring you to spend a holiday on Thorney Island…
Westminster Abbey, is too glorious (and expensive at £16 per adult) to fit our usual criteria of unusual places. But not so its less visited but delightful cloisters and grounds…