As the great and eminently quotable Dr Samuel Johnson once said ‘Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts’. London has grown relatively organically over two millennia […]
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Hampstead Heath is a wonderful place to feel like you have truly escaped the tumult of London. A sandy ridge, looking out over London from the North, Hampstead Heath covers around 800 acres and has a multitude of landscapes including ponds, hills, ancient woodland and open heath. It is a place where you can wander,
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I recently went on a wonderful historical walk around Forest Hill in South London. My exploration took me through the quirky Horniman Museum and Gardens and along part of the Green Chain Walk. You can see the map of my route and the stops below. Sights of Forest Hill The first thing I spotted in
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Sometimes in history you get remarkable coincidences. Two adjoining Georgian townhouses in Mayfair were, amazingly, over two centuries apart, home to two great figures in musical history: George Frideric Handel and Jimi Hendrix. Both lived at times of rapid change in London, both chose to move to London from other countries and both shook the
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I was recently lucky enough to be invited to have a look inside St James’s Palace. It is the royal palace with, traditionally, the least public access. That will however soon be changing, more on that below. The palace has been at the heart of Royal history for nearly five hundred years and naturally has
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