Can you smell smoke?
Because if you had been standing in the City of London on the second day of September 1666, exactly three…
Gog and Magog Giants of Albion
These two figures adorn the clock of St Dunstan’s in the West, Fleet Street. They are meant to represent the…
Is There A Doctor On The Train?
I recently read an article regarding a baby that was born on a London Bus in Hackney, which made me…
Sorry, no fish today
Had the luxury of travelling on a bus a few weeks ago from Victoria to Charing Cross. I call it…
The Downfall Of A Victorian Fraudster
If today you stand on the confluence of Cannon Street, Walbrook and Bloomberg Arcade, you’d be roughly inside The Coopers…
Eastcheap, the road to the pyramids
I was standing on the corner of Eastcheap and Lovat Lane the other day, when I happened to see a…
A dog licking a cooking pot
This fine piece of street art stands just yards away from Southwark underground station in south London, but what does…
Band On The Run
As we progress with this story you’ll see that I had little option but to go with the title that…
Political Assassination in Belgravia
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.…
A Day At The Races
The Noble Sport, The Turf and of course The Sport of Kings, this island race has horse racing in it’s…
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