A walk from Bethnal Green Station to the Limehouse Basin, along the Regent’s Canal. A good way to explore the area, with options to stop off in some city parks. Through Urban East London to a Green Space A lot of the land around East London has long been densely urban. As well as all […]
A review of Helaine Blumenfeld exhibition Looking Up, currently on view across the Canary Wharf Estate. Given the current scarcity of art on public display, I wish they had made more of the works. Exhibition Extended, But Only In Part Not so long after visiting Canary Wharf to see Connected by Light, I am back […]
An illustrated walk along the Thames, taking in many of London’s historic curiosities. Theatres and sewers and docks, oh my! Picking Up Where We Left Off Today’s walk is a continuation of this earlier walk which started in Chelsea and ended in Westminster. The walk comes from John Wittich’s 1973 book Discovering London’s Curiosities. As […]
An illustrated walk around the precincts of St Paul’s Cathedral by night, following in the footsteps of a 1940s guidebook. I couldn’t get as close to the cathedral as the book suggested, but noticed a lot of details I had never spotted before. Exploring Post-Blitz London From The 21st Century I bought London for Everyman […]
