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St Pancras Old Church

Hiding quietly behind St Pancras International Station in London, is St Pancras Old Church. Built on a site of Christian worship dating back probably as far as the 4th century, […]

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Rows of Red

Incredible begonias in the English Garden in Regents Park, London. . Posted as part of Ruby Tuesday.

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Woman Driver

This beautiful mural, made of ceramic tiles painted by Brian James in 2011, marks the former site of  a Bloomsbury petrol station.  The old Ridgmount petrol station dates back to […]

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St Paul’s Cathedral

St Paul’s Cathedral looks particularly striking in this pencil sketch. The sketch is in fact a modified version of this photograph, altered using Picasa.  Here is my original: This post […]

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Yellow Flowers in Regents Park

The gardens at Regents Park are spectacular at the moment; as you’ll see with these yellow flowers:   Posted as part of the Sunday Stills Next Challenge: Yellow Flowers.

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Urban Design in London

Urban design is the process of designing and shaping cities, towns and villages.  It is an inter-disciplinary subject that unites all the built environment professions, including urban planning, landscape architecture, architecture, and civil and municipal engineering. In […]

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Royal Naval College Mirrored

The Painted Hall in the Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, was not given its name for nothing. The ceiling is painted in the utmost detail, hard to appreciate with […]

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Store Street Espresso

I’ve been very busy the last few weeks and hadn’t had time to find a new coffee place.  In fact, I had visited this place a month or so ago […]

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Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge looks extra grandiose in black and white. . Part of Sonel’s Black and White Challenge: Bridges.

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Happy 40th Birthday, British Library

The British Library celebrated its 40th birthday today. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom.  It is a legal deposit library, and as such it receives copies of every book produced in Britain, […]