Right up until the 1950s the area behind White Hart Drawdock in Lambeth was dominated by the huge Doulton potteries. Originally they made sa...

For the first time, this blog features an ornament of the future. White Hart Drawdock is a medieval wharf a little upstream of Lambeth Pala...

Just along from Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury's London pad, a ship sails majestically out of a 1970s office block straigh...

The NatWest on Holborn Circus is a humdrum Victorian building (1870) by an unrecorded architect. The carvings on over the doors on Hatton Ga...

The ends of the old AEI building are marked with pavillions topped by more statuary by Maurice Lambert . These are not as disturbing as the ...

For years I have cycled briskly past the old AEI building on my way from the station, dismissing it as a bland, conformist design that was i...

At last, we conclude our tour in stone through the London Borough of Wandsworth at Tooting and Balham. Sculptor John Linehan seems to have ...