Bonnington Square in Vauxhall was built during the 1870s. Only a "six" away from the Oval cricket ground it comprised compact neat rows...

And the word was "Doves". I was skimming through a book that I was given for Christmas, the excellent A Field Guide to Larking by Lara...

"Oh no he isn't, oh yes he is". Sorry but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to slip in a pantomime reference considering the time of...

I don't normally go in for re-posts, but I thought with the impending festivities I'd climb into the loft and dust it off with the tangle...

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...

As Christmas is usually the time for ghost stories I thought I'd relay one that was the talk of London during the 1760s The ghost of Cock...

"Where was the first underground railway built?" Anoraks and general know it all's will sneer slightly at the simplicity of the question,...

I recently came across an article on the BBC website regarding the photographer and artist Julia Fullerton-Batten. Julia recently won a...

James Hatton was a small unremarkable man, employed as a cinema usher at the local picture Palace, The Electric, near to his Flat in...

We take the ability to see and function once the sun has gone down as a matter of fact thing, even possibly an inalienable right to have...

"Excuse me", said the American lady, her I suppose husband hanging back a little sheepishly, "Can you direct me to the British Museum?"...

The Millennium Bridge which crosses the River Thames between St Paul's and Bankside has been shut over the last couple of weeks for it's...

Tidying up today, I came across a box full of my old business cards. It's a very old institution, presenting a card to prospective...

" I don't know of too many Wetherspoons which have toilets on the ground floor", said my eighty-nine year old Dad. Possibly not the...

Gloucester Road underground station is a rather perplexing combination of buildings. As you turn into Gloucester Road from Courtfield...

Michael William Coplestone Dillon Onslow, better known to you all as the 7th Earl of Onslow. At first I was going to say, "No, I'd never...

I love to find things that are not quite what they appear to be. Given that there is a rather large subterranean London, the need to...

Today 43 Gerrard Street in the heart of Chinatown is the site of the New Loon Fung Restaurant and supermarket. Chinatown as the area we...

This weeks post is a short one (thankfully) and was instigated by a photograph that I found in an archive. I'll leave you to draw your...

Following on from last weeks post The Angel of Christian Charity I left you with a teaser. In different circumstances the area of...