The tight grid and tangle of streets in Spitalfields are some of the best preserved and atmospheric in the city. The area has an extraordinary amount of surviving eighteenth century architecture; townhouses built largely for the Huguenot silk-weavers who moved to London to after fleeing religious persecution in France. I was lucky enough recently to […]
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I recently went on a visit to the Museum of Homelessness. After having no permanent home itself for 8 years, they have recently found a base in Finsbury Park. I gathered from their website that it would not be a normal museum experience. Having been, I thought it was brilliant and that every Londoner, if
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Not only is the Natural History Museum one of London’s best museums, it is also one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. I was lucky enough to be invited on a couple of the Natural History Museum’s special tours: their Secrets of the Natural History Museum and ‘Spirit Collection’ tour. It turns out
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Thursday 6th June 2024 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. It was on the 6th June 1944 that the allied forces landed on the Normandy beaches, to retake occupied Europe and therefore changed the course of World War Two. There are a number of places that you can see or visit in London that relate
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On Bishopsgate, in the City of London, you will find London’s smallest church, St Ethelburga’s. Towered over today by the Gherkin, not only is it London’s smallest church, it can also be considered both London’s luckiest and unluckiest church. Today it is not an active church in the traditional sense but carries out a different
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