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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 They originally made their own maps and over the years they have supplied maps of Antarctica to Ernest Shackleton, […]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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Hampton Court Palace is one of London’s most historic locations. The place just oozes with history. I was delighted recently to be taken on a tour of the palace by Daniel Jackson, head of historic buildings at Historic Royal Palaces. He showed me lots of the little details and secrets that many visitors miss. I have
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Largely hidden from view, enclosed behind a brick wall in Chelsea is a beautiful and historic site. The Chelsea Physic Garden is a four acre botanic garden, established in 1673. Chelsea Physic Garden is both a beautiful, relaxing place to visit but one that is also packed with history and stories to tell. Chelsea In
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You may well be familiar with the Holborn Viaduct, an impressive Victorian construction acting as a bridge over Farringdon Street linking Newgate Street and Holborn. Did you know though that it was once home to the world’s first ever coal-fired power station? The Holborn Viaduct Down the Western edge of London once ran the Fleet
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