Stuff About London

It’s the most famous zebra crossing in the world.

Sometimes information on a space, an object, a thing is easy to find, sometimes it isn’t, and in the latter camp is very definitely the mosaic on the ground in Flaxman Court.

Among the graves of kings and queens in Westminster Abbey, the memorials to military heroes of the 18th century, and close by the burials and plaques of Poets’ Corner is a small, white, rectangular gravestone (reproduced above).

With a copy of John Rocque’s maps – his Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark, and what is known as the ‘London Near Ten Miles Around’ – it is possible to lose oneself for hours in the streets and the country roads of Georg…

A sunny lunchtime in July is obviously the perfect time to be staring into an undertaker’s window.

We’ve met the prolific sculptor George Frampton before, when we looked at his memorial to the nurse Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans in 1915, that stands in St Martin’s Place near Trafalgar Square.

Walk through Trinity Gardens from Tower Hill tube, towards the ticket offices for the Tower, and you will pass through the memorial to the merchant marine of WW1 and WW2, the civilian sailors who have ‘no grave but the sea’.

Hold onto your hats, because I’m about to use the word ‘iconic’.

On the day that the artist David Hockney died I was in Westminster Abbey pointing out, as I always do, the stained glass window that was commissioned from him to commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.

Green Street, parallel to and just south of Oxford Street, is a classic (that is to say, generic) bit of late Victorian/early 20th century red brick.

First things first – this (despite what every other blog post on the subject would have you believe) is almost certainly nothing to do with Monty Python.