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3 December 2025
I'm truly appalled – the Willen House transformation is worse than I'd imagined.
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This is the latest update about the 'renovation' of Willen House , a spectacular and rare example of of 1940's architecture that...
24 November 2022
Save Kings Cross Coach Station from demolition!!
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Earlier this week I was walking towards Kings Cross Station along Euston after attending a talk at the British Library. I was horrified to l...
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2 September 2022
A new architectural style in Spitalfields, E1 - Revivialist Pasticheism
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Walking from Aldgate to Old Street last weekend via Spitalfields market, I cut across Wentworth Street and into Toynbee Street. Ahead of me,...
1 December 2020
Construction Time Again – rebuilding Central London
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Travelling through Central London recently, admiring the view from the top deck of a bus, I couldn't help but notice the huge redevelopm...
28 November 2020
Battersea Power Station – an update on the renovations
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The whole riverside stretch between Battersea Bridge and 'Vauxhall Village' is today a swathe of new build, the old power station b...
5 July 2018
Sun Street and The Flying Horse
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Demolition and reconstruction. Will it never end? And this I saw it coming for years.... Sun Street runs behind the Broadgate complex ...
13 January 2017
Kings Cross ghostsigns and Pentonville Road
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Last year I wrote about the Daily Express sign at Willesden and within that I alluded to signs for the Daily News.... Well, I believe I hav...
10 January 2017
The Fabric of Smithfield
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The area has changed so much and so quickly. I recall going to a venue on Charterhouse Street for a friend's birthday party one Saturday...
10 October 2016
Bernard Morgan House, Golden Lane Estate, Barbican
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After delivering some of my cards to Exhibit on Goswell Road last month, I went for a walk around the Barbican complex and then to the Go...
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11 May 2016
Swain's Lane, Highgate West Hill, development of site
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I have for many years been keeping my eye on the old garages at the corner of Swain's Lane on Highgate West Hill. It always pleased me ...
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9 May 2016
The Olympian Way, Greenwich, continued
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Ok, so where was I? We'd given up on the foreshore, walked around the O2, seen some dodgy art and attempted to understand the confusing...
1 September 2015
Why is the UK still knocking down historic cinemas?
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That's the heading on this article from BBC News . Well I don't know. Of the London cinemas that remain but are no longer used for...
11 August 2015
College Street and Little Green Street, NW5
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Tucked away parallel to Highgate Road, between Kentish Town and Highgate, behind The Vine public house, is a lovely little footpath called ...
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18 June 2015
St James's Market, Piccadilly, SW1
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Last week I was wandering down towards Waterloo Place from Piccadilly and noticed that the area that once was St James's Market is surr...
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