TikTok
June 6, 2022
Hi everyone, you may have noticed I haven’t put many blog posts up recently. This is because I have started using TikTok and to my utter surprise I have had
London Spy Blog
Julian the Afflicted
May 2, 2022
I recently obtained a new treasured item to share on my tours, and used it last Friday for the first time on my Victoria’s Values walk. It’s a single leaf,
Winston the Great
April 23, 2022
Sorry for the long gap between posts, I’ve had a bit of blogger’s block. I hope to post more regularly from now… I recently attended the Freedom of the City
The two Thatchers
December 9, 2021
Some of you may be aware of the BBC Sherlock episode “The Six Thatchers” in which six plaster busts of our former PM are hunted for a hidden message. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Thatchers
Roman Wall images
June 20, 2021
Tower Hill Station Platform 1 Luminary Building David Game College The Crescent Merrill Lynch basement (credit to Ian Visits) Old Bailey basement Dead man’s walk Salters’ Garden Car
No-one notices monuments?
April 5, 2021
The novelist and philosopher Robert Musil between the great wars stated: “The remarkable thing about monuments is that one does not notice them.” It may well have been the case,
The Ten Towns and a dismal address
February 17, 2021
Found this delightful poem in Punch from 1858 marking Rowland Hill’s creation of the “Ten Towns” of the London postcode system. I live in the dismal hole of SE (
Londonogram
February 2, 2021
I recently read a fascinating book called “Citadel of the Saxons” by Rory Naismith about the shadowy times between the departure of the Romans from 410 CE until the Norman
100 years of the most famous magic trick of all
January 18, 2021
The Magic Circle gave a great public show last night on the 100th anniversary of sawing a woman in half – invented by Percy Tibbles and first performed on the
