Huelin, a working-class neighbourhood of Málaga, continues today to be a place of innovation and, increasingly, home to several cultural institutions. Introducing Huelin On my final day in Málaga, I had a good few hours before heading to the airport in the afternoon. And I chose to spend those hours in the neighbourhood of Huelin. […]
Just a stone’s throw from Tate Modern, Kirkaldy’s Testing Works speaks to Southwark’s industrial past and the ingenuity and single-mindedness of one man, David Kirkaldy. Another ‘New Museum’ in London One thing I love about London is how much of it I still have to see. I’ve lived here about 15 years now. And yet […]
A new discovery for the Salterton Arts Review, the Dunedin Gasworks Museum is world-class heritage close to home. Discovering the Dunedin Gasworks Museum OK, when I say a new discovery, I don’t mean this museum is new. I actually remember someone telling me I should visit when I was at university and, well, that was […]
The National Waterways Museum in Gloucester, managed by the Canal & River Trust, provides insights into how people once lived and worked on the UK’s waterways. The National Waterways Museum Gloucester Docks (I Think…) During a recent visit to see family in Gloucester, the Urban Geographer and I had the chance to explore a little. […]
A free exhibition at Two Temple Place, The Glass Heart explores 170 years of glassmaking in the UK. The Glass Heart On a recent walk along the Victoria Embankment I stopped in a whim at Two Temple Place. Or not quite a whim: I decided it would be a lovely thing to show the friend […]
Once the largest of the Codrington family’s 150 Antiguan sugar plantations, Betty’s Hope is today an important place of learning and memory. The Codringtons and Betty’s Hope Perhaps it is not a good idea to start a post about a site such as Betty’s Hope with a history of the enslavers rather than the enslaved. […]
An illustrated walk around the Greenwich Peninsula from Maze Hill to Woolwich Dockyard. By far the most industrial of our Docklands walks, and all the more interesting for it. Docklands Walks – A Complete Set! It’s been a while since we did a walk from Gilly Cameron-Cooper’s book Walking London’s Waterways. And today’s walk is […]
A description of a visit to Saltaire, a Victorian model village centred on Titus Salt’s immense woollen mill. This UNESCO World Heritage site gives an interesting insight into the intersection of 19th Century philanthropy and business, and 20th Century regeneration. Who Was Titus Salt And What Is Saltaire? On a recent seasonal visit to Yorkshire […]
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 walk from Shoreditch to Cannon Street, tracing the lost Walbrook River. This shortest of central London’s lost rivers nonetheless gives the chance to see plenty of interesting history. Finding the Walbrook Today’s walk, like an earlier one along the path of the River Neckinger, traces one of London’s lost rivers. This time we will […]
