On today’s walk we trace the Fleet from one of its sources on Hampstead Heath, through centuries and city streets all the way to Blackfriars. London’s Lost Rivers: It’s Been a While! It sure has. “The years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’,” to quote a key touchstone of millennial culture. And so the […]
Within easy reach of central London at Abbey Wood, Lesnes Abbey is a millennia-old archaeological site, a fossil pit, an ancient woodland, and more! Introducing Lesnes Abbey Frequent readers of the Salterton Arts Review might remember I visited Lesnes Abbey as part of Open House 2024, and teased a longer post on Lesnes Abbey. I […]
Now this is more like it: the Royal Collection of Italian Renaissance drawings is on display in all its glory at the King’s Gallery, with plenty of detail about how these extraordinary works came to be. Drawing the Italian Renaissance Is this my final last minute exhibition review for the winter season? Perhaps. Unless I […]
The trick to London is often paying attention to place names, as this walk around the precincts of Westminster Abbey amply illustrates! Exploring the Precincts of Westminster Abbey London, it’s been a while! Like I was saying recently in my review of 2023, there is far too much to see and do (although I can’t […]
A ceiling by Rubens and the site of masques, healings and a royal execution, Banqueting House reveals its secrets on a guided tour. The Former Palace of Whitehall I have to say, Whitehall is one of those street names I haven’t given much thought to, despite place names in London so often referring back to […]
Part royal palace, part Art Deco mansion, Eltham Palace is unique in South East London (and much further afield). Get to know the extended Courtauld family including their pet lemur, while simultaneously seeing where Henry VIII spent much of his childhood. A Visit To Eltham Palace Sometimes it’s the places the closest to home which […]
An exhibition centred on remarkable drawings, Holbein at the Tudor Court is marred only by having to jostle with fellow visitors to get close to the works. Holbein at the Tudor Court If you call an image to mind when you think of Hans Holbein, it’s likely a member of the Tudor court. Probably someone […]
Within easy reach of London, Winchester has been an important place since Britain’s earliest days. Home to Romans and various European tribes, Winchester has seen royal weddings and coronations, periods of prosperity, poverty and strife. Packed full of cultural and historic attractions, find out what you can see in a day in ‘England’s first capital’. […]
An informative and thoughtfully-curated exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, Executions does not shy away from London’s bloody past. Executions As an exhibition, Executions basically does what it says on the tin. It’s about executions. Specifically in London. Centuries of bloodshed and violence, baying crowds and those making money off them. Places that seem […]
A guided tour of Moor Park during the 2022 visitor season. This is very likely the only time a golf club will feature on the Salterton Arts Review so let’s get stuck in, shall we? Moor Park There is rather an interesting history to Moor Park, a stately home turned golf club near Rickmansworth, North […]
