Ooh this is a good idea, and something I hadn’t noticed or thought about until I heard about this show – the repeated motif that can be see...

Striding up Sackville Street earlier this week, cutting through from Piccadilly to Vigo Street, I happened upon these two unusual coal hole ...

The Courthauld Gallery closed its doors in Autumn 2018 for a refit and rehang that took three years , reopening in November 202. As one of m...

Last week whilst ambling from Piccadilly to Holborn via Long Acre, admiring the architecture and generally enjoing the sunshine, I happened ...

I am often to be heard talking about how surprising it is that many of the marvellously constructed and well-embellished buildings along Old...

Has anyone else ever spotted this on the streets of this fair city? Only, I have showed the image above to many London historians, guides an...

  I took a quick snap of this when I spotted this last year, but being as that was a very dull day and there was some scaffolding covering h...

So there I was, leading a guided walk down Upper Street last Thursday 31st March. The subject was 'Islington's Golden Mile – drapery...

You probably think all I look for and write about about these days is ghost signs. Well, that's not true – I've got a folder fit to ...

I was in Shoreditch recently, wandering about admiring things, planning walking routes and generally enjoying the Winter sunshine. I decided...

This might be the best hidden-in-plain-sight ghostsign in central London. I have been busy pulling together some online talks about old defu...

At the northern end of Tottenham Lane, on the right and just before the fork where the road meets Church Lane and leads down to the right an...

Yesterday I went up to Hornsey Town Hall to see what's happening at the Town Hall site adjacent to Crouch End Broadway. As you can see, ...

Earlier this year, as I was exiting the Post Office at Hornsey Road, I spotted a lovely old shop fascia across the road at No.526, advertis...

If you have been on my 'Art Deco Shoreditch' walking tour you will know that a popular and provocative stop along the route is Will...

I've been wandering the streets a lot these past few weeks. Either just following my nose, investigating places I don't know so well...