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Great Marlborough Street runs roughly parallel to Oxford Street emerging into Regent Street. One of it’s most famous confluences is...

In the last post, Hide and Seek in Moorgate, I relayed the story of the run up to the English Civil War and how five members of...

I’ve had an interest in the English Civil War for some time, but have never really got to grips with it, that is until this Christmas...

Philanthropy at Christmas comes in many forms whether it is sending money to an appeal, donating to a food bank or possibly even...

The answer can only be found in one place and that is the inside of a Christmas cracker, for it is one of the many terrible jokes that...

I came across a seasonal tale recently, one that Charles Dickens if he’d been alive at the time might have woven into one of his stories...

The Maughan Library Not a flake of snow or a plump robin to be seen in the picture above, but this grand building in Chancery Lane is...

Following on from the last post and keeping up the festive theme, I thought I’d spend a very wet Wednesday in the warm searching for the...

I don’t normally go in for re-posts, but for reasons better known at the time I posted this in January, so thought with the impending...

One Word Sunday #London #OWS #Underground

Six Word Saturday The Pregnant Man, 40 Chancery Lane WC2A Once the private drinking establishment of the advertising agency Saatchi &...

This is a story despite the title about one person. Marguerite Marie Alibert was born on 9 December 1890, in Paris to Firmin Alibert, a...

Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an...

One Word Sunday Eurydice by  by Sue Hubbard, Waterloo Underpass “Now I stop my ears with wax, hold fast the memory of the song you once...

It’s a chilly mid morning in November 1883 and you have just sat down at the table to enjoy a morning coffee in your flat at number ten...

This year saw the 356th anniversary of the Great Fire of London. The whole event is shrouded in misinformation, untruths and supposition....

One Word Sunday The Seven Ages Of Man The Seven ages of man monologue in William Shakespeare’s play ‘All the World’s a Stage’ depicts the...

The saying goes “After the Lord Mayor’s show comes the S**t cart“, in more polite circles this can be changed to “Dust cart or even...

The Dominion Theatre stands on Tottenham Court Road. Construction of the theatre began in March 1928 with a design by W and TR Milburn...

One Word Sunday Copy of the Eleanor Cross, Charing Cross Station #London #OWS