Jane's London
Ancient Lights – the right to daylight
New exit at Kings Cross station – watch this space!
Book review – Seething Lane by Jack Jewers
A Mayfair manhole cover containing remnants of wood paving
Guinness Time again. But this time it's an Intellectual Property issue
1979, the International Year of the Child
A visit to Harrow School
Update on the Imperial Hotel renovation at Russell Square
The "restoration" of an Art Deco era Burton's store
Drop shadows – up, down, left or right?
A Ladbroke Grove ghostsign – a huge hidden gem that's hard to see
The Conversation at St Martin's-in-the-Fields – coming together to talk about the world
Rotten Row's Tercentenary Bollards and Gas Lamps
Stepney to Wapping. So much to see.
Clerkenwell observations, on the streets and within the venues at CDW 2026
A visit to William Booth Memorial Training College, Champion Park, Denmark Hill
Delightful street art by Max Jaz Art in Holloway Road
Braidwood Passage – Nicely reinvented with hand-made tiles
Some lovely tiled panels in Hornsey High Street have been lost to us
Feeling gloomy with Stephen Fry but uplifted by Hannah Rose Platt at The Hunterian Museum
Cannon lamp posts
Sad to see The Saloon sign in Kings Cross Road has been covered up.
The Society of Portrait Scultors' fab selling exhibition FACE2026 at The Garrison Chapel
Konrad Mägi's gorgeous paintings at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Camden Passage – a filming location for The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1954)
Updates to previous posts – loss and regeneration
Surely and Quickly With Speed I Strike On Wings Of Fire
Ally Pally's mis-matched floor tiles
Stratton Street dragons
Park Lane and Park Street discoveries
Chelsea distractions - welcome to my world
A private tour inside Lambeth Fire Station, London Fire Brigade's Art Deco HQ
Dr Johnson's Apostrophes or Apost'rophes
Two queens, two phoenixes and a couple of chapels and castles
A scratched doorway in Rugby Street
Patchwork platforms and utter filth on the London Underground
On the tiles at Russell Square tube station
The subterranean passage below Albertopolis
The names behind the letters on 161-167 Euston Road
Finding elements of the Nativity in London's streets
Cecil Beaton's Fashionable World at NPG – it's all in the details
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Two Tottenham Ghostsigns
I'm truly appalled – the Willen House transformation is worse than I'd imagined.
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Art Deco: the golden age of poster design at The London Transport Museum
Lots to see at ING Discerning Eye 2025 art exhibition at The Mall Galleries – FREE! Closes 1pm Sunday 23rd Nov
It's World Toilet Day – Carnaby Street in inconvenienced
J. Troake, Straw Chip & Leghorn Presser – is this London's oldest ghostsign?
Kensington Gardens – strange chestnuts and up close at the Albert Memorial
A Deco-tastic wander around Claridges at Christmas – sensational and slapdash
Religion and Rembrandt and black black BLACK at Dulwich Picture Gallery
The delightful details on the Palais de Danse ghostsign at Hammersmith station
Painting Light – Anna Ancher at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Edwardian era architectural trompe l'oeil at 386 Oxford Street – linen, jewellery or furs?
Ha-ha. Very funny Mr Bridgeman.
More fancy filigree 4-sided forged fencing
A very unusual gate post in Notting Hill and other lovely things in Holland Park Avenue
The Hat & Feathers, Clerkenwell – another ghostsign deciphered
Bowling balls in Clerkenwell – a ghostsign with links to Putney and the West Indies
More things that don't add up – John Marshall and Emily Davison in Newcomen Street
Alperton station – no escalator, but a rather fine shopping arcade
It was great to be part of the RA Summer Show 2025
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Another elephant spotted in Camden... and a few other beasts too!
More oddities and observations near the Britsh Museum
Could this be London's oldest coal hole cover?
Express services in Coptic Street
Ghost signs in Rochester Row
You want best seats we have them (sic)
Interesting man hole covers in Camden – numbered and wood-filled
Is this the oldest building on Oxford Street?
Sticking my oar in
A house in Tudor Street, a ghostsign in Primrose Hill and a bit of Fleet Street history
Norbury and the high numbers (no, it's not a beat combo!)
Art and craft in Bloomsbury
A bizarre bootscraper installation near World's End, Chelsea
Better Hearth, 109 Holloway Road – layers of history revealed (and lost)
Shoreditch – powerful architecture, marvellous metal and a helping hand
Take a tour and find out about the development plans for the Earls Court exhibition site
Telegraph Place and Tokenhouse Yard
Farringdon station – why no escalator from the Thameslink platforms?
Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 – let there be lights and
A walk from Ealing Broadway to Acton Central
Dulwich Festival May 2025 – art and open studios, ghostsigns and more