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...

In my previous post I wrote about a drive about in London on Christmas Day which somehow included a jaunt up the A5 to Colindale. On the way...

Christmas Day 2021.  With no Congestion Charge and no Ulez restrictions my mate Malcolm drove over to Holloway from Notting Hill to pick me ...

For the last few years, and especially so this year, I have been appalled to hear that people have been complaining that the wonderful Chris...

What is this thing lately where people refer to periods of history as "in the 1600s" ? Is this yet another example of dumbing d...

I've seen a lot of art these past few weeks. And it's all good. Last week I went to the Royal Academy Summer Show which this year i...

I had no idea about this superb gallery until I walked inside the door of this unassuming, yet beautifully renovated, Georgian house in Dove...