Egyptian House 170-173 Piccadilly is one of those functional early 20th century buildings that in the next hundred or so years people will begin to love. It’s a bit of a hybrid, echoes of Georgian and Victorian architecture muddled up with just a glimpse of what was ahead in terms of Art Noveau and Art… Continue reading A Little Bit of The Pharaohs In Piccadilly
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One Word Sunday
I’m going Ten Pin bowling tonight
Six Word Saturday
Greek Street, Then and Now
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 more garish neighbours. With the relative tranquillity at its northern end of Soho Square it’s always struck me as a street that’s a bit more laid back, perhaps not as… Continue reading Greek Street, Then and Now
Last chance to see… (well for a while anyway)
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 its present site in order to facilitate the move to its new home which will be ready to open in 2025. The new site which is currently in a… Continue reading Last chance to see… (well for a while anyway)
Under is as elaborate as over
Six Word Saturday
Cleary Gardens
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 Gardens, nestling between the busy Queen Victoria Street an Upper Thames Street. The development of the garden into what we see today dates from the 1980’s when it… Continue reading Cleary Gardens
Petunias and porticos in Temple Avenue
Six Word Saturday
The Bridge of Sighs
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 and North America. The one I want to write about today no longer exists, or rather it has been replaced by a newer bridge, and that is Waterloo Bridge which… Continue reading The Bridge of Sighs
Patrick Hamilton
If I’m being honest, I’d never heard of Fitzrovia until about twenty five years ago. Then one afternoon, I caught the back end of a play on Radio 4 called Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky. Not a lot on the Dial-Up Internet back then, only the authors’ name, Patrick Hamilton. I called in at… Continue reading Patrick Hamilton
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