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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

I’ve just added the City of London Schedule of works and road closures website to my favourites. Not exactly bed time reading, but as I...

It was not my intention to mention turtles again so soon after my last post on the subject titled Cowabunga dude, but I came across some...

One Word Sunday Upper Thames Street. The first dual carriageway within the City of London #History #London #OWS