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Discover London with Blue Badge Guide Don Brown: - from the places every visitor must see, to the sites even most Londoners don't know about.
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25/08/2024

Off to work; an autumnal chill in the early morning air.

24/08/2024

The very couch upon which John Hunter (1728-1793), anatomist and surgeon, expired. It’s now in St George’s hospital in Tooting.

22/08/2024

London, the original home of the UN

19/08/2024

London innit.

The 14th century tower of All Hallows Staining overwhelmed by the buildings around it - with a new one about to emerge on Fenchurch Street

19/08/2024

Charles I, on the wall of St Margaret’s church, Parliament Square.

18/08/2024

The three pm handover.

16/08/2024

The statue of ballerina Anna Pavlova on top of the Victoria Palace theatre.

15/08/2024

When does graffiti transition from ‘vandalism’ to ‘history’?
you can gaze upon the , graced by royal backsides since around 1300, but also engraved by pupils in the 18th century.
This includes a certain ‘N Curzon’, an MP and later the out Baron Scarsdale.

12/08/2024

11/08/2024

At the National Theatre

08/08/2024

Square blog post: old(ish) and new(ish) building and statue.

Two old-looking artefacts in Soho Square - one not as old as it seems, the other dating back to the 1680s.

04/08/2024

New blog post on stuffaboutlondon.co.uk about the ubiquitous London plane tree (including the venerable Brunswick Gardens example)

04/08/2024

A new blog post on the ubiquitous London plane tree - Platanus x hispanica - *the* tree of the capital's parks and streets.

They're pretty much everywhere in the city, but the London Plane has some ancient examples that you can go and hug, should that be your thing.

02/08/2024

Your classic London . These ones are in

02/08/2024

The ridiculous, OTT, über kitsch, but unutterably magnificent

02/08/2024

Today I am playing the tourist.

30/07/2024

Bloomsbury redneck

29/07/2024

“Baby things: mitten”, a painted bronze sculpture by Tracey Emin from 2010.

It sits on the railings outside the Coram foundation, the site of Thomas Coram’s Foundling (abandoned children) Hospital that dates from the 18th century.

28/07/2024

Flarze in Victoria Embankment Gardens

27/07/2024

A bit of courtesy of ’s

27/07/2024

“In the early hours of Friday 16 October 1987 a great storm struck South East England. In four violent hours London lost 250,000 trees. Its skyline changed for ever.
The Evening Standard launched a tree appeal and this English oak, placed here a year after the storm, is one of the many new trees paid for by its readers.”

23/07/2024

The rather weather-worn statue of Charles II in Soho Square

22/07/2024

A detail from the 14th boxwood citole in Probably the greatest piece of secular carving in the whole of medieval England.

A swine herd is walking through the forest, knocking acorns off an oak tree for his pigs to feed on.

22/07/2024

‘Forsaken’ at the on Charing Cross Road.

17/07/2024

Door. cathedral close.

17/07/2024

Today I am mostly marvelling at the gothic wondrousness of

17/07/2024

Exeter’s Tudor House

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A #guardchange on #themall on a sunny May morning

Bluebells in the woods above @chartwellnt on a perfect spring day.

Spitfire over Blenheim Palace

A stroll through the (nearly) empty Churchill War Rooms. #winstonchurchill #cwr #churchillwarrooms #churchill

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An Oxford Saturday

A tour in Oxford with some American friends. We looked into St Mary’s on the High, and they were rehearsing a bit of Mozart.

The Band of the Grenadier Guards leading the Irish Guards to Buckingham Palace. The music is Sousa’s ‘Liberty Bell’ - better known as the theme to ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’. #london #visitlondon #changingtheguard #guardchange #buckinghampalace #irishguards #grenadierguards #montypython

Tilbury Turbine . #tilbury #windturbine #bluesky

The COVID memorial wall along the Albert Embankment at St Thomas’ Hospital. About 400m of hearts, each commemorating someone lost. #london #covidmemorial #albertembankment #stthomashospital

A wonderful bird is the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can. He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week! But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?