Come with me to discover Hackney’s oldest home, Sutton House. We’ll meet Tudor grandees, Victorian school teachers, Union leaders and squatters. Afterwards we’ll take tea in a Breakers Yard. Who Built Sutton House? Hackney: beloved…
Street Art, what is it? Is it the graffiti that you see from the train? Probably not. Is it council commissioned murals? Possibly. Stencils spray-painted onto walls? Yes, but that’s not all it is. Venture…
Diary of a Nobody is one of those books I’d heard off but never read. Until now … read my book review to find out if it is still funny 150 years on. Whilst on…
Apsley House stands proudly on London’s Hyde Park Corner. It was once known as Number One, London. Come with me and discover the home of one of England’s heroes, the Duke of Wellington. Inside Apsley…
For years I saw the Wellington Arch from the top deck of a bus and never knew that you could actually go inside. Open all year round, with magnificent views from the top. You can…
The Cast Courts at the V&A are among my favourite galleries in the museum. When the furthest I had travelled was from Norwich to the V&A I knew that one day I wanted to visit…
Clambering aboard the Cutty Sark was place I visited in London. For years the Tower of London and the Cutty Sark were London to me. When she was engulfed in flames in 2007 I wept…
