Architecture
The Tower of London.
The Tower of London still stands as a symbol for the strength and greatness of the city of London, occupying a position as afortress for nearly two thousand years.
Read MoreWestminster Hall 1097
Westminster Hall, Westminster London, the oldest building in Parliament with the most stunning hammerbeam roof
Read MoreIsambard Kingdom Brunel’s Box Tunnel
The incredible engineering feat of the Brunel Box Tunnel in Wiltshire is humbling when you realise amongst other things that it was constructed by candlelight….
Read MoreEthel Mary Charles First Female Architect RIBA
The first female architect admitted to the Royal Institution British Architects, was Ethel Mary Charles in 1898, she was one of many ‘firsts’ for women entering male dominated professions
Read MoreVictoria and Albert Museum and it’s Smithfield Connection
Sir Aston Webb designed the Victoria and Albert Museum but his family history is buried deep in London’s Smithfield where his work restoring the church of St Bartholemew the Great established his reputation as a great architect.
Read MoreLeadenhall Market an historic marketplace dating back to the 1st century
Leadenhall a place of gathering and social connection since the first century…still going today with the distinctive wrought ironwork and glass building designed by Sir Horace Jones…
Read MoreRestoration Property Developer Dr Nicholas Barbon
The history of London property development includes some of the most fascinating characters, Dr Nicholas Barbon one of the best. The memory of Restoration redevelopment lives on in the capital’s street names
Read MoreHistory Repeating – Proposed New Euston Station
Another possible redevelopment of Euston Station?
Read MoreIssac Newton at Trinity College Cambridge
Isaac Newton and Christopher Wren intriguing connections and Trinity College Cambridge
Read MoreCanterbury Kent Family History Resources
Canterbury Kent, if you have family history connections or are simply interested in local history then this is a great little site through which you can explore the buildings of Canterbury
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