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I was delighted recently to be invited by the Foreign Office to be given a tour of a Government building that is almost never open to the public: Lancaster House. It can be found next to St James’s Palace and it is approached by going through a barrier manned by armed guards. Built initially as […]
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If we are talking about living history, one of the places that is most emblematic of that in London is Smithfield Market. It is London’s oldest wholesale market, tracing its roots back over 800 years and still operating from the same site. It is, however, sadly, going to be shutting down in the next few […]
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London is famous for its impressive and spectacular Christmas lights displays: Regent Street, the windows of Selfridges, Covent Garden piazza. Dotted around the streets of Soho however are a series of lights that quite possibly best them all… Since 2021 the children at Soho Primary School have worked with an architect called Antonio Capelao to […]
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Walking along St Martin’s Lane, not far from Trafalgar Square, you cannot help but pay attention to the tower of the London Coliseum. It is one of the capital’s most distinctive theatrical landmarks and has played a central role to London’s theatre scene now for over a century. I was delighted to pay them a […]
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Picture the scene. It is 2001 and you wander off the streets of St James’s into the American Bar of the Stafford Hotel. You grab a drink and sit at the bar. At the other end of the bar is an elderly lady, with an enraptured crowd around her, gathered to listen as she regales […]
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