LONDON on the Ground

Hiding in plain sight, mosaics of the Muses, Modern Virtues, Pleasures and Labours are among the gallery's best artworks. The entrance hall to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square contains four floor areas of mosaics created by Boris Anrep between 1928 and 1952. The Russian-born mosaicist mixed with the Bloomsbury Group of artists and writers, together with other noted 20th century intellectuals and socialites (some of whose faces made it into these mosaics). The entrance

A small City of London park with a rich history surprised me with a link to my past. St Mary Aldermanbury Garden St Mary Aldermanbury...

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

Named after a friend of Winston Churchill and designed by an architect who preferred candles to electric light. Bracken House, the City...