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A sight for…

I had no idea what to expect, but the College of Optometrists museum (#museyeum) is the greatest little museum I’ve been to in London for a long time, it’s fabulous.

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Angels old and new

There is a famous painting from 1616 of a dream vision of St Paul’s cathedral as it should have been. The first picture is of it as it was then

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Victorian Secrets

Leaving Victoria Station immediately to the left is an Underground entrance. I was waiting for a recent walk to start there and suddenly noticed that metal panels surrounding them had

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Heavenly body

Walking to Aldgate yesterday I noticed an unusual sculpture inside a new office block – One Creechurch Place – and went inside to ask about it. https://www.buildington.co.uk/london-ec3/creechurch-place/one-creechurch-place/id/4333 The receptionists asked

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SS-GB-Art Deco

I surprised the staff in a Virgin Gym today by informing them they were working inside a planned Nazi HQ. This rather wonderful Art Deco building, known as Ibex House,

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Next stop Westminster

I am very pleased to announce that I have been accepted onto the City of Westminster Guides Course. It all started after one of my work offices in Victoria asked

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The Fall of the House of Fraser

At the north end of London Bridge is an imposing building, looking straight down the bridge and often known as “The Gateway to the City”. Every morning cycling into work

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Nailed it.

In the west entrance to the One New Change shopping arcade, with spectacular views across St Paul’s Cathedral, is this 12 metre high old rusty nail – sticking out of

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