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At the Lisson Grove end of Marylebone Road you will find Westminster Magistrates Court. What to my mind is a rather drab building has...

The National Lottery started in the UK on the 19th November 1994, however, this was not the first nationwide lottery to be run in...

Good manners prohibit me from finishing the title, but what I’m striving for is the full repertoire of inuendo and verbal abuse that some...

The London Eye has dominated the skyline of Lambeth for over twenty years. This 135 metres (443 ft) tall wheel has a diameter of 120...

There is at the western end of Fleet Street an opening to an alleyway so small that it is often easy to walk past and not notice it is...

One Word Sunday Monza Street, Wapping #Graffiti #London #OWS #Walking

Six Word Saturday #6WS #London #Panoramas #Walking

I was sitting in Fitzroy Square recently having a sandwich and playing a memory game. The square, located near to Regents Park has always...

I was stopped the other day by a couple of tourists asking for directions and I outlined the quickest route to their destination, which...

One Word Sunday Low tide, Queenhithe #London #OWS #Thames #Walking

So what do you think you know about Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London? The story goes that an impoverished Whittington made his way...

The phrase is often attributed to Queen Victoria and has passed into common usage to note perceived strait-laced stuffiness, bolstering...

Doing what I do, walking around and looking at a London that in parts doesn’t even exist today there has to be an element of imagination...

Six Word Saturday Festival Gardens, St. Pauls #6WS #London #Sculpture #Walking

Medieval medicine and it’s practitioners get a rather bad press, Quackery neatly wrapping the whole issue into an understandable term....

Ok, let us start with the supposition of Geoffrey of Monmouth the 12th century chronicler of the British Isles. King Lud was a pre-Roman...

One Word Sunday Looking down on the Monument #History #London #Monuments

Recently I visited Battersea Park for the first time in about fifty years. I can remember being taken as a small child to see the...

Today’s Clerkenwell is popular with creative firms and dotted with smart apartment blocks in converted warehouses. It has many good...

One Word Sunday The Barbican #architecture #London #OWS