Paddington is not an area of London that you would go to unless you had a very good reason. Yes there are some impressive properties, some nice Georgian terraces and a lot of money. But on the whole the impression you come away with is that of small seedy hotels, transient lives lived behind well …
St James, New Bond Street and Marylebone
As it was a cold but sunny day we decided to take a walk in London with the aim of ending up in a vegan café that we have never tried before. Actually we never made it to the café as we became too absorbed in enjoying the walk, one of the pubs, and Daunt’s …
Electric Dreams
No not the song or the “Twilight Zone" style tv series, but an exhibition that runs until June at Tate Modern. The theme is tech meets human, so in a funny way very contemporary - except the exhibits are mostly curated from the 70s, 80s and 90s when the theme music to Doctor Who exemplified …
Battersea, Chelsea and Victoria
Photographs from Battersea, Chelsea and Victoria My current obsession is to plot out a rough area for a walk around London then, armed with camera and an egg sandwich, to go explore. Except today I didn’t take a sandwich and ended up eating a very good but slightly expensive sourdough toastie and a glass of …
Fitzrovia and Soho – January 2025
This was a me day - or rather it was eventually, as I didn’t get up and out as early as I had expected. After looking for Houdini Henry the cat who had escaped at 3am, I had to get up at 8am to fix up the hole in the fencing where he had managed …
From the archives: Villiers Street 2017
This is a series of pictures I took some eight years ago whilst killing time between meetings at the PWC offices. NHS manager off the lash and enjoying his real passion of photographing people and beautiful / odd / significant things. I have an odd fondness for Villiers Street with a couple of significant memories …
London by night
A Christmas gift idea …
London @ Christmas
A walk from Waterloo to King’s Cross at a time of year when London is arguably at its best. The capital does Christmas well in terms of colour, markets, and an endless range of food choices, and a tendency to put socialising above out-and-out boozing has made for a softer, friendlier experience in recent years; …
London 29th Nov 2024
More eclectic scenes of the capital as we approach Christmas. One welcome aspect of being British in recent years is that we’ve loosened up a bit as a nation; the idea of turning the pillars of the Royal Exchange into seasonal candy stripes would have been a definite no-no not that long ago. I think …
