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Sep 3, 20221 min read

Keep your feet off the table

Six Word Saturday The wild table of love by Gillie & Marc. Paternoster Square #6WS #London #Sculpture #Walking #Publicart

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Steve Matthews

Sep 2, 20224 min read

A tale of two halves

Do you sometimes get that feeling? The one where you know something is just not quite right, but you can’t put your finger on why. It...

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A Little Bit of The Pharaohs In Piccadilly

Steve Matthews

Aug 29, 20223 min read

A Little Bit of The Pharaohs In Piccadilly

Egyptian House 170-173 Piccadilly is one of those functional early 20th century buildings that in the next hundred or so years people...

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Steve Matthews

Aug 28, 20221 min read

Straight

One Word Sunday City of London Boundary Markers #London #OWS #Walking

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Steve Matthews

Aug 27, 20221 min read

I’m going Ten Pin bowling tonight

Six Word Saturday Winged Lion, Holborn Viaduct #6WS #History #London #statues

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Steve Matthews

Aug 26, 20226 min read

Greek Street, Then and Now

Greek Street, Soho I’ve always found Greek Street in Soho to be a bit of an oasis, if a slightly shabby one when compared to some of it’s...

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Last chance to see… (well for a while anyway)

Steve Matthews

Aug 22, 20221 min read

Last chance to see… (well for a while anyway)

If you’ve never visited the Museum of London near the Barbican then you’ve got four months to do so as it’s closing. The museum will shut...

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Steve Matthews

Aug 20, 20221 min read

Under is as elaborate as over

Six Word Saturday Under Holborn Viaduct, Farringdon Street EC1 #6WS #London #Victorian #Walking

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Steve Matthews

Aug 19, 20223 min read

Cleary Gardens

Space where you can sit and reflect, away from the noise and commotion of the City can be hard to find. One such little oasis is Cleary...

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Steve Matthews

Aug 13, 20221 min read

Petunias and porticos in Temple Avenue

Six Word Saturday Temple Chambers, Temple Avenue. #6WS #London #Walking

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Steve Matthews

Aug 12, 20224 min read

The Bridge of Sighs

So, you have the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, then there’s the one in Oxford and another in Cambridge. I counted another twelve in Europe...

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Steve Matthews

Aug 8, 20222 min read

Patrick Hamilton

If I’m being honest, I’d never heard of Fitzrovia until about twenty five years ago. Then one afternoon, I caught the back end of a play...

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Steve Matthews

Aug 7, 20221 min read

Steps

One Word Sunday Pedestrian access to Waterloo Bridge #architecture #London #OWS #Walking

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Steve Matthews

Aug 6, 20221 min read

Sun and arch in total alignment

Six Word Saturday Pump Court, The Temple #6WS #London #Walking

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Steve Matthews

Aug 5, 20224 min read

The Sign Of The Two Headed Swan

I was prompted to take this uninspiring photograph after coming across an old image of the same location. The first picture is Gresham...

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Steve Matthews

Aug 1, 20222 min read

I fought the Law (and the Law won)

Ask anyone who has ever walked through the legal areas of London, be it Inner or Middle Temple, Lincoln’s or Gray’s Inn what’s most...

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Steve Matthews

Jul 31, 20221 min read

Concrete

One Word Sunday Covered walkway, Barbican #London #OWS #architecture #Urban #Walking

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Steve Matthews

Jul 30, 20221 min read

Wrapped up just like a parcel

Six Word Saturday The Hoop & Grapes Farringdon Street. The Hoop and Grapes was built in 1721 on part of the historic burial grounds of St...

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Steve Matthews

Jul 29, 20224 min read

“Lord have mercy upon me, I am killed”

Last week I posted about my failure to check out some details with regards to an audio tour I was in the process of publishing and how it...

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Steve Matthews

Jul 25, 20222 min read

Similar crimes, different outcomes

Recently I posted a picture that made me smile due to the strange use of punctuation. Overzealous use of the full stop is a picture of...

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