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One Word Sunday Arundel Street, Temple WC2 #London #OWS

To help clear London’s air and improve public health, the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is expanding across all London boroughs from 29...

One Word Sunday The Barbican (reimagined) #London #OWS #Underground #Walking

This short story fits loosely in with the idiom theme that I’ve been perusing recently. The term is used to mean a disappointment or...

I like to collect and research idioms, although I’m not too sure how to describe them. I suppose a phrase that is used where a meaning is...

For the last month I’ve immersed myself in all thing Soho, as I’m currently publishing an audio tour about the area ( when it’s published...

Probably best I explain from the beginning, Jessie Matthews was an actress, dancer and singer of the 1920s and 1930s, whose career...

It’s 1665 and you’ve caught the coach from York to London and are recuperating at the White Hart Inn on Bishopsgate prior to a business...

Sometimes you walk past a building and give it no attention whatsoever, it doesn’t matter how grand or humble it is, it just doesn’t ask...

Great Marlborough Street runs roughly parallel to Oxford Street emerging into Regent Street. One of it’s most famous confluences is...

In the last post, Hide and Seek in Moorgate, I relayed the story of the run up to the English Civil War and how five members of...

I’ve had an interest in the English Civil War for some time, but have never really got to grips with it, that is until this Christmas...

Philanthropy at Christmas comes in many forms whether it is sending money to an appeal, donating to a food bank or possibly even...

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...

I came across a seasonal tale recently, one that Charles Dickens if he’d been alive at the time might have woven into one of his stories...

The Maughan Library Not a flake of snow or a plump robin to be seen in the picture above, but this grand building in Chancery Lane is...

Following on from the last post and keeping up the festive theme, I thought I’d spend a very wet Wednesday in the warm searching for the...

I don’t normally go in for re-posts, but for reasons better known at the time I posted this in January, so thought with the impending...

One Word Sunday #London #OWS #Underground

Six Word Saturday The Pregnant Man, 40 Chancery Lane WC2A Once the private drinking establishment of the advertising agency Saatchi &...