A London Blog

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...

With Big Ben mostly covered at present due to renovations, what about checking out Little Ben on Victoria Street just outside the station? It was originally installed in 1892 as a miniature version of its more well known brother, (although apart from being a clock...

Set apart from the main galleries and museums, the Tate Britain Art Museum on the Millbank has a kind of proud to be different air about it. This is one of the wonderful things about London. There is a nice surprise around almost every corner! The building opened on...