Devoted to the unexpected details that help to make life in the city worth living
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Heritage Court, Sampson Street E1
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This vivacious Pegasus enlivens a very dull building that may have been built as a telephone exchange, probably in the 1950s by the look o...
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Lalit Hotel, Tooley Street SE1
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This neo-Baroque pile was built as St Olave's Grammar School by the architect E. W. Mountford in 1894. The school moved to Orpington ...
Friday, 14 June 2013
Evelyn Court, Stourcliffe Street W1
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The mansion blocks that line Edgware Road are seedy now, bearing the scars of decades of low-cost maintenance and lazy workers installing ...
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, Circus Road NW8
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One would expect the figures over the entrance of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth to be, well, John (the Baptist) and his ...
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Tuesday, 28 May 2013
1 Moorgate EC2
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This splendid pair of doors is on 1 to 5 Moorgate, a typically City office of 1906 by Mountford and Gruning, but the whole shebang was red...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Old Southwark Town Hall, Walworth Road SE1
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After 1820 building proceeded apace, but as late as 1853, when Harriet Beecher Stowe stayed with the Rev. Thomas Binney at Rose Cottage o...
Saturday, 18 May 2013
St George's Gardens WC1
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I always assumed that St George's Gardens was the graveyard of a long-demolished church, but the other day I actually read the info bo...
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