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9 May 2022
Reframed: The Woman In The Window at Dulwich Picture Gallery
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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...
29 April 2022
Coal hole cover plates made by the Luxfer Company of Finsbury
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Striding up Sackville Street earlier this week, cutting through from Piccadilly to Vigo Street, I happened upon these two unusual coal hole ...
26 April 2022
The Good, The Bad and The Unfriendly – Van Gogh Portraits at The Courtauld Gallery
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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...
22 April 2022
Circles of delight in WC2
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Last week whilst ambling from Piccadilly to Holborn via Long Acre, admiring the architecture and generally enjoing the sunshine, I happened ...
20 April 2022
Criminal loss of curved Art Deco windows at Balenciaga, New Bond Street
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I am often to be heard talking about how surprising it is that many of the marvellously constructed and well-embellished buildings along Old...
11 April 2022
Little letters at low level
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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...
5 April 2022
Owen & Thomas, linen drapers, 376-378 Bethnal Green Road, E2
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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...
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4 April 2022
Another shop fascia reveal – this time at 237 Upper Street, opposite The Union Chapel
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So there I was, leading a guided walk down Upper Street last Thursday 31st March. The subject was 'Islington's Golden Mile – drapery...
16 March 2022
Another ghostsign – Benjamin, Shepherd Market, Mayfair
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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 ...
13 February 2022
Blooms Pianos, Kingsland Road – two signs and at least four workshops
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I was in Shoreditch recently, wandering about admiring things, planning walking routes and generally enjoying the Winter sunshine. I decided...
10 February 2022
Shaftesbury Hotel ghostsign – a bargain price at a great location with breakfast and billiards
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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...
8 February 2022
On the tiles at George's Fish & Chips shop, 45 Tottenham Lane, N8
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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...
3 February 2022
An update on the renovation of Hornsey Town Hall and the surrounding site
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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, ...
1 February 2022
Reveal of old Wills's tobacconist sign in Hornsey Road, N19
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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...
14 January 2022
Please help to save the unusual 'Art Deco' style façade of Willen House, Bath Street
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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...
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30 December 2021
Clapton ghostsigns – hints of upwardly-mobile Victorians and a multi-layered engma
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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...
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