London is famous for its impressive and spectacular Christmas lights displays: Regent Street, the windows of Selfridges, Covent Garden piazza. Dotted around the streets of Soho however are a series of lights that quite possibly best them all… Since 2021 the children at Soho Primary School have worked with an architect called Antonio Capelao to […]
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Walking along St Martin’s Lane, not far from Trafalgar Square, you cannot help but pay attention to the tower of the London Coliseum. It is one of the capital’s most distinctive theatrical landmarks and has played a central role to London’s theatre scene now for over a century. I was delighted to pay them a
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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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I always love visiting the livery halls of the City of London. They are buildings that are generally not open to the public, but are usually full of interesting stories, artefacts and often are central to key elements of London and the country’s history. Going through their doors often feels like delving into a hidden
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I had the great privilege recently to be invited to have a look around Windsor Castle on a day that it was shut to the public. It was incredible to be able to soak up the atmosphere of the oldest inhabited castle in the world. It is naturally packed with history, artefacts and wonderful architecture,
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