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One New Change: views, reflections, angled glass and hidden art
The City of London’s largest shopping centre offers stunning views of St Paul’s and beyond (it also has shops). One New Change Opened in 2010, One New Change occupies a whole block, bounded by New Change, Cheapside, Bread Street and Watling Street. It is the second post World War II building on this site, replacing offices built in 1957 (on what had been a bomb site) for the Accountant’s Department of the Bank of England. Walks available for booking For a schedule of forthcom
London On The Ground
Oct 185 min read
A timeline of the tallest building in London: from St Paul’s to the Shard
Five buildings have successively replaced St Paul’s as the capital’s tallest. St Paul's Cathedral and The Shard Sir Christopher Wren’s St...
London On The Ground
Sep 216 min read
Art of the London Blitz: bomb sites painted by Ernest Borough Johnson
Bombed City of London churches and Guildhall through the eyes of an artist in the 1940s. St Paul's Cathedral by Ernest Borough Johnson...
London On The Ground
Aug 305 min read
Hubert Pragnell’s bombed City of London after World War II
Unpublished drawings of St Paul’s and Blitz-damaged Wren churches in the 1950s and 1960s. St Paul's Cathedral and St Nicholas Cole Abbey,...
London On The Ground
Jul 126 min read
How the 'Cheesegrater' got its wedge shape
The City of London office block, Richard Rogers and Sir Christopher Wren. Officially 122 Leadenhall Street, or the Leadenhall Building,...
London On The Ground
Aug 18, 20245 min read
Poster art and design on the London Underground
A personal selection from the London Transport Museum. The London Transport Museum's Global Poster Gallery, which only opened in October...
London On The Ground
Apr 8, 20245 min read
Ward Lock's City of London 1929
A 95 year old illustrated guide book shows many recognisable views. Ward, Lock & Co began publishing a series of illustrated guide books...
London On The Ground
Feb 17, 20243 min read
Temple Bar Memorial: Victorian delights you may not have noticed
The fearsome dragon is impressive, but the plinth contains hidden treasures. Temple Bar Memorial, where The Strand becomes Fleet Street,...
London On The Ground
Feb 2, 20246 min read
Emily Young's serene stone angels near St Paul's need to be seen
See the angel heads by Britain's "greatest living stone sculptor" on public display next to St Paul's. Five angel heads by Emily Young,...
London On The Ground
Apr 7, 20235 min read
Spitting image: Ben Wilson turns used chewing gum into art
Cross the Millennium Bridge and see tiny artworks painted on old chewing gum in the grid of the walkway. For years I walked across the...
London On The Ground
Aug 5, 20223 min read
Old Queens: Ten of Six in the City
The Queen's Platinum Jubilee prompts a look at ten public statues of six past queens in the City of London. By my count, ten statues of...
London On The Ground
Feb 4, 20227 min read
St Paul's and the Phoenix and Wren
The story of St Paul's Cathedral's relationship with fire and how Sir Christopher Wren caused it to to rise like the Phoenix from the ashes
London On The Ground
Aug 19, 20218 min read
The appeal of a peal. City of London Festival of Bells
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
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