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Graveyards are often beguiling and fascinating but, I am sure you would agree, are generally fairly sombre places. In Islington however, you will find two graves upon you which you are joyously and actively encouraged to dance… Joseph Grimaldi Park By the Regent’s Canal near Angel you will find Joseph Grimaldi Park. Dating from the […]
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Occasionally in London you find somewhere that really transports you back in time. James Smith and Sons, London’s oldest umbrella shop, does just that. The beautiful mahogany, painted glass and brass frontage on New Oxford Street immediately stands out from its more modern neighbours. You can peer in through the window and you admire the
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So much of London’s history is tied up, not only in its buildings, but in its green spaces. Its tiny pocket parks in particular often have fascinating stories to tell. I have written about a few of them before: Cleary Gardens with its Roman roots, Postman’s Park with its one-of-a-kind memorial and St Pancras Church
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On the corner of Curzon Street and Curzon Square in Mayfair you will find an attractive black-brick Georgian house. After being gutted during the Second World War it was converted into apartments. It was in this building, in the same flat, in the very same bed, that both Cass Elliot (Mama Cass) and The Who
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Walk along Piccadilly by Green Park, and, by a bus stop, you will find an unusual piece of street furniture. It is known as a ‘porter’s rest’ and is the only one left in London. What Is A Porter? Porters were those hired to carry goods from A to B and from the 17th-19th centuries,
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