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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There are so many incredible historic buildings in a relatively small area in Westminster. Many, quite reasonably, are focussed on Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament and do not pay a huge amount of attention to Methodist Central Hall. It is just on the other side of the road from Westminster Abbey and is
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I was delighted recently to be invited by the Foreign Office to be given a tour of a Government building that is almost never open to the public: Lancaster House. It can be found next to St James’s Palace and it is approached by going through a barrier manned by armed guards. Built initially as
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If we are talking about living history, one of the places that is most emblematic of that in London is Smithfield Market. It is London’s oldest wholesale market, tracing its roots back over 800 years and still operating from the same site. It is, however, sadly, going to be shutting down in the next few
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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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