Monthly Archives: June 2017

For this weeks ‘culture’ trip I had the pleasure of being accompanied by the dear old GLW (eg good lady wife), as we set out to locate London’s ‘oldest’ tree – an ancient, gnarled, withered and stunted old thing………but she’s good to the kids (boom boom) The subject matter is a thriving Yew tree that ...Read more...

  This week’s ‘culture’ day out could potentially have me criticised as being a bit of a Geeky McGeekface from Geeksville – but in fact, the topic in question is interesting as it focuses on something that all Londoners, and anyone who has ever visited London, will all have seen and taken for granted, and ...Read more...

My ‘culture’ gig this week was a rather strange one, because (as Michael Caine would say) “Not a lot of people know that”……and it concerns London’s ‘Necropolis Railway’ also known as the ‘Death Railway’!!! Halfway between Lower Marsh street and Lambeth North tube station is 121 Westminster Bridge Road. As a building, it’s a lot ...Read more...

Watching the heroics of the London Fire Brigade at the Grenfel Tower tragedy the other week, got me thinking about the big old fire stations that used to be around in London when I was a kid. These majestic Victorian/Edwardian buildings were a noticeable landmark in most towns, but particularly in the City of London ...Read more...