LONDON on the Ground

The Partners’ work included Eltham Palace and post-war restoration of London churches, St Paul’s and Westminster Abbey. John Seely and Paul Paget, Partners in life as well as in business, produced architecture that combined old and new with sensitivity and flair in the middle decades of the 20 th  century.   They met in around 1920 at Cambridge University, where Seely read Architecture and Paget read English (but he never graduated), and became great friends. On 7 March 1926

A moving memorial to animals that took part and died in 20 th century wars and conflicts. The Animals In War Memorial is a tribute to horses, mules, donkeys, dogs, pigeons, elephants, camels, oxen, bullocks, cats, canaries and - perhaps most surprisingly - glow worms that served and lost their lives alongside British and Allied forces. As an inscription on the monument says, “They had no choice”.   It is in Park Lane, at Brook Gate, close to Speakers Corner in Hyde Park. It

Bombed City of London churches and Guildhall through the eyes of an artist in the 1940s. St Paul's Cathedral by Ernest Borough Johnson...

The World War II story was painted by artist Carel Weight. On a recent trip to Manchester, I came across a four-panel oil painting...

Thames Estuary defences likened to War of the Worlds and Star Wars. The Maunsell Forts were off-shore anti-aircraft defences constructed...