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When I first started this site as a portal for A London Miscellany Tours and began to write about some of the history of London, like...

Stephen Geary? ……………………………. Anyone? No, I must admit it wasn’t a name that I was familiar with, but Mr Geary definitely left his mark on...

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

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...

Do you ever get a feeling about a location? It doesn’t have to be something outwardly disturbing, just a vague notion that something...

Whenever I walk the streets of London I try to make the effort to look up once in a while. Sometimes you can be too focussed on what’s in...

Today, Crane Court sits unobtrusively between two fast food outlets on Fleet Street. Visitors who venture into its interior may be...

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

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...

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

ambrosia /amˈbrəʊzɪə/ noun 1. GREEK & ROMAN MYTHOLOGY The food of the gods, often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon...

To make a Peacock Pye. Pick it, and leave the Feathers on the Neck, cut the Neck off close to the Body, skin the Neck close to the Head,...

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

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

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

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...

There have been many violent and disturbing crimes committed in the Capital over the centuries, some single incidents, and others of a...

Turning on the tap and getting fresh water has to be one of the top things we take for granted, possibly up there with breathing....

This was written last year before Covid engulfed us all…….. As I’ve got older I seem to have shaken the habit of staying within the...