Discover London with Don Brown - Blue Badge Guide

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From the archive: the US Embassy at Nine Elms
21/11/2024

From the archive: the US Embassy at Nine Elms

The US Embassy building at Nine Elms has substantial echoes of the Tower of London - a 'donjon', earthworks and a moat.

To the high seas! (well, Bankside) for the tale of Sir Francis Drake and his ship the Golden Hinde.
20/11/2024

To the high seas! (well, Bankside) for the tale of Sir Francis Drake and his ship the Golden Hinde.

Avast there, landlubbers! The story of the Golden Hinde, Drake's ship for his voyage of discover and piracy, and the 20th century reconstruction on Bankside.

This month's new blog posts, and some tours with me -
20/11/2024

This month's new blog posts, and some tours with me -

Join me on 19th January for a Sunday morning stroll around Smithfield, Charterhouse and the Barbican - an area steeped i...
20/11/2024

Join me on 19th January for a Sunday morning stroll around Smithfield, Charterhouse and the Barbican - an area steeped in history and in blood.

A Sunday morning stroll around historic Smithfield

A lizard carved on the doorway to the (original) courtyard entrance to the Despite various bits of googling I can’t fin...
20/11/2024

A lizard carved on the doorway to the (original) courtyard entrance to the

Despite various bits of googling I can’t find out why it’s there. Any answers?

The first of my 2025 tours. Join me on 12 January for a small group tour of the British Museum.
19/11/2024

The first of my 2025 tours. Join me on 12 January for a small group tour of the British Museum.

Come join us for a small group tour and uncover the best of the British Museum's treasures!

Sir Jacob Epstein's very human bust of the physicist Albert Einstein can be found in the V&A's sculpture gallery.
19/11/2024

Sir Jacob Epstein's very human bust of the physicist Albert Einstein can be found in the V&A's sculpture gallery.

In the V&A sculpture gallery you can stare into the eyes of Albert Einstein as sculpted by Sir Jacob Epstein in 1933.

A stroll over the South Downs to finish in Lewes
15/11/2024

A stroll over the South Downs to finish in Lewes

14/11/2024
Set into the 21st century wall of the Home Office, a plaque on the origins of Westminster’s Marsham Street.
10/11/2024

Set into the 21st century wall of the Home Office, a plaque on the origins of Westminster’s Marsham Street.

10/11/2024

A small visitor attraction in Chelsea looks at pensioner life.

The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in , the candles in place for Remembrance Sunday services tomorrow.
09/11/2024

The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in , the candles in place for Remembrance Sunday services tomorrow.

Battersea Park fireworks, from the free viewpoint on Albert Bridge
03/11/2024

Battersea Park fireworks, from the free viewpoint on Albert Bridge

You can’t beat a walk around Richmond Park on a pleasant autumn morning.
01/11/2024

You can’t beat a walk around Richmond Park on a pleasant autumn morning.

To the Garden Museum for their 'Lost Gardens of London' exhibition
30/10/2024

To the Garden Museum for their 'Lost Gardens of London' exhibition

The exhibition at Lambeth's Garden Museum celebrating some of the "appealing, curious, unusual and representative” gardens of the capital that are now no more.

29/10/2024

Reminder for association members of this month’s lecture on the great estates of Westminster.

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This is why we live in cities part 94. A lovely autumn/late summer evening so a walk across the Common to find @fatcatbrass playing tunes at the pub to the general delight of the assembled multitudes.

A #guardchange on #themall on a sunny May morning

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

Spitfire over Blenheim Palace
Spitfire over Blenheim Palace

Spitfire over Blenheim Palace

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

UKToursOnline - a history of London in eight structures with Don Brown
UKToursOnline - a history of London in eight structures with Don Brown

An Oxford Saturday
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?

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