See on a tour of London…

This highly decorated Art deco building on the corner of Fulham Road comes as a lovely surprise. Built for the Michelin Company in 1911, what a sight it must have been! Classy tyre fitting bays at the front and over 30,000 tyres stored in the basement brought up by...

The last of London's galleried pubs, they don't come more historic than the George Inn. Originally there would have been numerous coaching Inns along Borough High Street, with travellers stopping on their way to the City to water their horses and get a bed for the...

St Olave's Church on the corner of Seething Lane and Hart Street, is one of the few medieval churches in the City of London to survive the Fire of London, though fail to escape the Blitz, having to be extensively restored. Samuel Pepys who lived nearby was a...

On September 7th 1940, during WW2, approximately 350 German bombers appeared in the sky over London and carried out the first bombing raid in what became a sustained air campaign against the capital. Over 450 Londoners died that day. The Blitz had started. The battle...

The Great Fire of London of 1666 started in the early hours of 2nd September and raged for 3 days before it finally burnt itself out. It left a scene of total devastation in its wake. Over 51 Churches, 13,000 houses and many public buildings, some 80% of the city,...

Gatehouses would have been all the rage in medieval England and this Gatehouse, a rare combination of a 13th century stone arch topped with a 16th century Tudor structure, is undoubtedly one of London's best examples. Amazingly, this hybrid gateway to St Bartholomew's...

Neoclassical architecture doesn't come any better than this. Ten Trinity Square originally housed the Port of London Authority whose job it was to collect river taxes - hence the figure of old Father Thames looking out from the top of the building.After various...

Another wonderful example of Victorian engineering and architecture, I love driving under Holborn Viaduct which spans Farringdon Street. I always try to imagine the 'lost' River Fleet which would have flowed here (now converted to a subterranean sewer beneath the...

This bronze sculpture of the two wartime allied leaders was erected in Bond Street in 1995, on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The two men were very different in many ways. Churchill a former soldier and staunch Conservative while...