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It’s on hot days like today where we Londoners should thank Victorian entrepreneur Carlo Gatti for introducing us to this splendid cool nectar. Carlo Gatti came to London in […]
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Nestles in the cobbles streets in the area of Blackfriars is the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Above the main gate and scattered throughout their building is their coat of arms. […]
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Only one of Queen Anne’s seventeen pregnancies produced a potential heir, William, Duke of Gloucester (1689-1700). His death in July 1700 at the tender age of eleven caused Parliament to […]
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Ormond Yard was laid out as a 200 feet square plot of land originally designed to be a stable yard and by 1740 the yard was already being called Mason’s […]
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The worshipful Society of Apothecaries’ Hall is filled with rhinoceros, but why? It’s probably one of the most famous and certainly one of the most influential images of an exotic […]
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Seated at Cambridge Green, on the corner of The Mall and Horse Guards Road, directly outside the Old Admiralty Building. The site had previously been occupied by an air shaft […]
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