A London Blog

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...

This highly decorated Art deco building on the corner of Fulham Road comes as a very pleasant 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 which...

There's something reassuring and timeless about the Old Vic standing proudly at the intersection of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established here in South London in 1818 as a 'minor theatre' (as opposed to the more important 'patent' theatres in Covent Garden), it was...

The last remaining wholesale market left in Central London, Smithfield not only boasts a stunning Victorian building (designed by Horace Jones, who also designed Tower Bridge) but also represents a continuous history of over 800 years of being a meat market on the...

The garden squares of Mayfair make this part of London special. Built in the early 1700's as the city spread west, they were designed to create a more healthy living space for it's wealthy residents. They were also places for the upper classes to go promenading, to...

Apsley House facing Hyde Park Corner is the ancestral  home of the Duke of Wellington and is the best preserved Georgian townhouse in London. The Duke of Wellington famously defeated Napoleon in 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo and served twice as Britain's Prime...