Walk down St John’s Lane in Clerkenwell and at the end of the street you will see a impressive gatehouse. Incongruous to its surroundings, it looks almost as if it has been transported out of a medieval world. This was once the Southern entranceway to the Clerkenwell Priory, the English Headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller. […]
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One of my favourite small museums in London is the Garden Museum. It was set up in Lambeth in 1977, I have written a blog post on the full history behind it before here. The Garden Museum is inside the old church of St Mary-at-Lambeth. There has been a church here since at least the
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I love my historical day trips from London and Rochester was one of my all time favourites. It took just over an hour on the train from London Bridge and you arrive right into the centre of the town. Rochester I found to be the perfect day out because everything is in quite a small
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I recently had a fascinating visit to the Map House in Knightsbridge. The Map House was established on another site, St James’s Street in St James’s, in 1907, before moving to its current site in 1973. They originally made their own maps and over the years they have supplied maps of Antarctica to Ernest Shackleton,
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Whitechapel in London’s East End is a fascinating area of the city. It has, really since it started to be built up, been one of London’s most multicultural areas. Whitechapel once lay just outside the city walls and outside the authority of the city government and trading guilds. It therefore, with Spitalfields to the North,
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