Most guides begin with the predictable sermon about hydration, sensible shoes, and the moral importance of carrying a fully charged power bank. I’m not going to do that. You’re an adult; you can manage your own footwear. I’m not even going to plug my tours at this stage, although rest assured, the hard sell will arrive in due course. What I do  want people to understand, before they take one of my audio tours, is that exploring a city is an art. It’s a skill that took me long

If today you stand on the confluence of Cannon Street, Walbrook and Bloomberg Arcade, you'd be roughly inside The Coopers Arms....

Definitely my favourite and probably the best studio album by The Stranglers, released in 1977, so the copy in my collection is now 47...

One of the most visited performance venues of the late eighteenth century was Astley's Amphitheatre. It was situated close to Westminster...

A few weeks ago I posted a piece called Original Skin during which I bemoaned the area around the Houses of Parliament, mainly due to the...

There is a small area of central London crammed in between Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Strand and Aldwych. The area is known as Clare...

Today's post is a rather unseasonal one, prompted by some photo album housekeeping. No wonder I hadn't found it during December as the...

History will have many instances of people who possibly from birth have been groomed to hold a lofty position within society. They go to...

A few weeks ago, I plucked up the courage to take a walk around the area of Westminster. Courage is probably a gross exaggeration, but...

Question: When is an underground station, not an underground station? Answer: When it's a hotel. Central London has a number of what are...

The Victorians have always fascinated me. Such drive and inquisitiveness they moved the country forward with their technological...

I was reading an article recently about the Gran Telescopio Canarias, and it's observatory based in the Canary Islands, which is...

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

You can hear the mob baying, whipped up into a frenzy of anti Catholic fervour by the ringleaders. The crowd some three hundred strong...

I already knew of one of the protagonists of this story, but not the other and only recently learnt how their opposing views created an...

The entrance to this small park was once the entrance to a school playground that separated Dame Alice Owen’s Girls’ School and Owen’s...

Sometimes logic goes out the window, especially where London is concerned. Take this example. Q. I'd like to go and see Mansion House in...

I recently took a photo of a drinking fountain just across the road from St Paul's Cathedral. I was struck with the slight similarity in...

I'd always wondered what the "incapable" meant in the phrase. Incapable of what exactly? Creating children's novelty balloons, reciting...

Had the luxury of travelling on a bus a few weeks ago from Victoria to Charing Cross. I call it a luxury because it gives a different...