Anything relating to London’s museums: updates, information and reviews
London is, of course, full of brilliant, often free, museums. You can read all my blog posts on London museums/exhibitions here. I recently went to the Bank of England Museum for the first time in years. Commerce, trade and finance are all so integral to the story of London and this is a great museum […]
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Turn off bustling Fleet Street into the much narrower and quieter Bride Lane. Walk past the back of Wren’s 17th century St Bride’s Church… … and you will find a historical hidden gem: the St Bride Foundation. From the early 1700s up until the 1980s, Fleet Street was the centre of London’s thriving newspaper business.
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I love a good map. Old maps, I find, are one of the most amazing resources for getting in touch with London’s history and the lives of past Londoners. In the Guildhall Art Gallery you can find a bright, enlarged version of one of the earliest maps of London. It is known as the Agas
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On what is now a quiet residential street in Twickenham you will find the only surviving home of one of Britain’s greatest artists: JMW Turner. Not only that, but he actually designed it himself. Today it is tucked between terraces of Victorian houses but when built, the surrounding area would have looked very different. JMW
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Tucked away down a quiet backstreet in Westminster you’ll find one of London’s most prestigious hotels. St Ermin’s has a fascinating history, most notably due to its use during World War Two by the Special Operations Executive and by double agents during the Cold War. A Historic Building St Ermin’s Hotel was built in 1890
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