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Islington Museum can be found in a fairly uninspiring looking building on St John Street. Do not be put off by the austere exterior however, it is absolutely worth popping in if you are at all interested in London’s history. Walking in you are met with a few information boards giving you a bit of […]
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Picture the scene. It is 2001 and you wander off the streets of St James’s into the American Bar of the Stafford Hotel. You grab a drink and sit at the bar. At the other end of the bar is an elderly lady, with an enraptured crowd around her, gathered to listen as she regales
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Greenwich is one of London’s four UNESCO world heritage sites, along with the Tower of London, the Palace of Westminster/Westminster Abbey and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. It is one of the most historically significant places in the city and boasts some of its best vistas. At the heart of this historic enclave you
A Visit To The Queen’s House: Classic And Pioneering Read More »
Walk along Norton Folgate from Liverpool Street Station and you are largely surrounded by modern office blocks, many of which have gone up in just the last couple of years. Turn right however down the cobbled Folgate Street and you immediately feel as if the clock is winding back. One building, number 18, particularly stands
Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs’ House Read More »
London has had many world firsts in its history, perhaps most notably, it was the first city in the world to develop an underground railway. A lesser-known ‘first’ however, is that it also had the world’s first tunnel under a navigable river. The Thames Tunnel, that runs from Rotherhithe to Wapping, was designed by Marc Brunel
‘The Eighth Wonder Of The World’: A Visit To The Brunel Museum Read More »