My top ten spot lists of London’s historical highlights. Organised by category such as era or place.
I recently went on a preview Behind the Scenes tour of Tower Bridge. This included going across the famous glass walkways at the top but also down into the cavernous bascule chamber below the South tower. A Quick History Of The Bridge In the 1800s, the population of London skyrocketed from roughly 1 million in […]
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I was recently lucky enough to be invited to have a look round the Foreign Office building on King Charles Street in Westminster. For most Londoners, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office Building is likely one you have walked past many times but, unless you have been on an open day or work there, have
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London, at its heart, is a Roman city, founded just after the Roman invasion in 43AD. Many Roman remnants survive today including sections of the wall, a temple and bathhouses. An important Roman town also needs an amphitheatre. It was assumed that Londinium, as the Roman city was known, must have had an amphitheatre but
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I was recently very kindly invited by the London Transport Museum on one of their Hidden London tours. I have previously been on their tour of the Clapham South Deep Level Shelter, which was incredible, so I was very excited to do another. This time I went for Aldwych: End of the Line: a tour
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I recently paid a visit to the beautiful Dulwich Picture Gallery: the world’s oldest purpose-built art gallery. Not only does it house an incredible art collection with works by Constable, Rembrandt and Gainsborough, but it has some incredible architecture to admire and even contains a mausoleum… Early Origins: The Elizabethan Actor In 1605 Edward Alleyn,
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