A blog on London history - and other stuff
A sunny lunchtime in July is obviously the perfect time to be staring into an undertaker’s window. I’m in Lamb’s Conduit Street, a rather chi [...] The post The People who Buried Nelson first appeared on Stuff About London .
We’ve met the prolific sculptor George Frampton before, when we looked at his memorial to the nurse Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans in 1915, [...] The post The Statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens first appeared on Stuff About London .
Walk through Trinity Gardens from Tower Hill tube, towards the ticket offices for the Tower, and you will pass through the memorial to the merchant [...] The post The Tower Hill Execution Memorial first appeared on Stuff About London .
About the large guns that sit in front of the IWM in Lambeth. From the WW1 battleships HMS Ramillies and Resolution. The post The Imperial War Museum’s Big Guns first appeared on Stuff About London .
On the day that the artist David Hockney died I was in Westminster Abbey pointing out, as I always do, the stained glass window that [...] The post David Hockney’s Westminster Abbey Stained Glass first appeared on Stuff About London .
To Green Street in Mayfair, to see the only house where all four of the Beatles lived under the same roof. The post When I Get Home – the Beatles’ Mayfair Pad first appeared on Stuff About London .
The enigmatic artwork of Greenwich that most people get wrong. It's definitely not a dead parrot. The post The ‘dead parrot’ statue in Greenwich is not what you think first appeared on Stuff About London .
Red coated guardsmen! The Household Cavalry! King Charles in the Australian State Coach! All the (to be honest, completely pointless) pomp and ceremony of a [...] The post From today’s State Opening of Parliament first appeared on Stuff About London .
Now I don’t generally work on London Marathon day (“the noise! and the people!”), but this year found me doing a tour of an almost [...] The post Stumbling Across the ‘Tudor Pull’ first appeared on Stuff About London .
Today anglers sit by Mount Pond on Clapham Common, fishing for the carp that patrol its waters. They’re joined by the occasional heron, and ducks [...] The post Benjamin Franklin’s Clapham Common Experiment first appeared on Stuff About London .