Mary Queen of Scots House was built in 1905 for a Scottish insurance company. The statue was the idea of one of the developers, Sir John T...

When he was just 12 years old, Charles Dickens had to go to work in a blacking factory because his father had been imprisoned in the Marsh...

This oddity seems to be all that is left of Bagnigge House, in the 17th century the country home, it is said, of Nell Gwynne. It became re...

The Venezualan patriot Francisco de Miranda lived at 58 Grafton Way from 1802 to 1810, during which time it became a hotbed of South Ameri...

The Swedish sculptor Carl Milles (1875-1955) began creating angel musicians in 1918 on the death of his closest friend, the composer Emil ...

Apollo and Minerva  Presiding The Oxford and Cambridge University Club was built in 1835 by brothers Sir Robert and Sidney Smirke, with ...

Buy-to-let is nothing new - this building was funded by the City Offices Company, an investment vehicle, in 1866.  To attract a better cl...