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The Crystal Palace Subway is somewhere that I have had on my list to visit for a good few years now. I was therefore delighted to have recently been given access by the team at the Crystal Park Palace Trust. Designed by Charles Barry Junior, the Crystal Palace Subway was originally constructed as the first […]
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Walk a few minutes North East from Covent Garden along Long Acre and you will turn the corner to be presented with one of the most impressive views of a building in London. Ahead of you is the stunning Art Deco masterpiece that is Freemasons’ Hall. Freemasons’ Hall is the headquarters of the United Grand
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The Worshipful Company of Insurers, one of the City’s livery companies, says that ‘London Insures the World’. It is safe to say that finance and insurance are crucial to the history of London and its place today as a global city. Lloyd’s of London has been at the heart of that story since the 1680s.
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The Victorians really knew how to do a town hall. I paid a visit to one of the most spectacular: Shoreditch. Shoreditch Town Hall has an amazing history involving Jack the Ripper, the Suffragettes and the Kray twins, as well as being a place of entertainment, administration and community in the East End for over
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The foreshore of the Thames is a generally very overlooked part of the city. If you are walking along the embankment at low tide, peer over the wall down to the riverside and you may well spot a few characters wandering along, necks craned downwards, eyes scanning the sand, shingle and mud beneath their feet.
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