One Word Sunday The spire of St Clement Danes and behind the Royal Courts of Justice on an overcast Sunday morning. #London #OWS

Once you’ve designed a tour, walked it countless times, discovered new things along the way to add in and found bits to leave out, you do...

One word Sunday Clock above the entrance to Warnford Court, Throgmorton Street, City of London. #Clocks #OneWordSunday #OWS #Time

The immortal line penned by Dickens in Oliver Twist which was serialised from 1837. I actually have a connection to Oliver, we’re both...

Enter the shiny glass and steel station facade at Blackfriars and the world is your Oyster(card) as to your destination. Places as...

One word Sunday Don’t know if there any Tripe Dressers left in Smithfield, but this was once the site of Edmund Martin Ltd at 3 Lindsey...

Picture the scene, it’s March 2020 and my fledgling guided walking tour business, A London Miscellany Tours is getting up a nice head of...

Part of Six word Saturday I’d always put 46 Crispin Street down as a trendy piece of gentrification in the heart of Spitalfields, however...

Posted as part of six word Saturday The Mercers Maiden The Mercers Maiden is a small piece of stone relief carving that is on the wall of...

Apparently an idiom by Ovid, but then his mate Aesop said “Good things come in small packages”. I’m inclined to side with both...

The “Iron Duke”, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, National Hero, Soldier, Politician and Prime Minister, what a guy! Its only...

You may have read my post last Friday regarding the Elizabethan building that was discovered when a bomb exploded near to it during a...

City of London Police Box For someone who spends a lot of time walking the streets of the City of London in search of interesting and...

St Bartholomew’s Gatehouse in Cloth Fair is definitely a fine old Elizabethan building. Well that’s not strictly true. It is and it...

The Egyptian styled Art Deco temple to journalism that was once the former home of the Daily Telegraph is located on Fleet Street, and...

Going through my photo collection the other day, I came across a visit I made a couple of years ago to 55 Broadway. The building was...

No history in today’s post, just a blatant piece of self promotion. As some of you who read my ramblings may know, I run a guided walking...

This fine piece of street art stands just yards away from Southwark underground station in south London, but what does it mean? It is a...

A little late I know but in true Trumpian style here’s a couple of fanciful facts bandied around as the truth. Fact: There is only one...

Who lives in the tallest house in the City of London? The answer to that is I don’t know, but it matters little who lives there, the more...