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Sugar Daddies

With a tin bearing an image of the rotting carcass of a lion surrounded by a swarm of bees is not by today’s standards the most politically correct way to advertise your product. The brand registered [...]

Bush House pruned

Bush House pruned

To many of us Bush House in Aldwych is just an obstruction on our journey from Kingsway to Waterloo Bridge forcing us to take a detour around a rather large traffic island. But for many, particularly [...]

Salubrious solitude

ike buses it seems celebrities come along in pairs, for after months of not seeing a famous face I had two in succession. It was the first snow fall of the year when my radio offered [...]

From silken riches to rags

Possessing one of the largest number of early Georgian buildings in London, Spitalfields, dominated by Christ Church, a masterpiece of baroque designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor which featured in Peter Ackroyd’s novel Hawksmoor, this small enclave of [...]

Dr. Johnson’s magnum opus

hat most quintessential of Londoners Dr. Samuel Johnson has become the capital’s favourite adopted son. He is the most quoted person in the English language after Shakespeare and with his famous verdict on the City “When [...]

Weird homes

t is said that an Englishman’s home is his castle, for some homeowners that is true . . . but for others – well they have had different ideas. But first a castle:  Vanbrugh Castle, Maze [...]

Keep calm and carry on

roadcasting House in Portland Place is almost certainly the most famous 20th century building in London. Completed in May 1932 to provide a home to the world famous British Broadcasting Corporation (“BBC”), whose motto ‘Nation shall [...]

Fire Brand

Fire Brand

The word curfew derives from the Norman French Couvre le Feu. It literally means put out your fire, and not as is commonly thought to tell citizens that they must not leave their homes after nightfall, [...]

10 Downing Street

he world’s most photographed door and CabbieBlog is old enough to have driven down England’s most famous short street in his car, turning round at the end and driving out again. The last time the cab [...]

Moving the Mad

Moving the Mad

Today I tell you the tale of how Bedlam became synonymous with a state of total chaos. Built in 1250 the first Bethlehem hospital was situated just outside the City’s walls near Bishopsgate. Where now the [...]