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City of London Street names: a dozen that don’t mean what you think

More peculiar and varied street names in the Square Mile. The City of London is the oldest part of the metropolis. Because of its...

London On The Ground

Jun 17 min read

Pepys, Amazing Grace, The Times, Frankenstein, Joe Orton, The Beatles, mobile phones and more. To celebrate New Year's Day 2024, here is...

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Dec 31, 20234 min read

The City of London boasts fine examples of work by Tim Crawley, one of the UK's foremost sculptors of stone. Tim Crawley describes...

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Mar 10, 20234 min read

Does the street Churchill called "shaky and lightly built" take after the developer Pepys called "a perfidious rogue"? Downing Street's...

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Oct 22, 20225 min read

To mark the reopening of the City of London, a bell ringing festival was held on Saturday 31 July 2021 at 20 churches, 18 in the City and...

London On The Ground

Aug 4, 20214 min read