Building of the Week
Jamie (Building of the Week)Every week, I pick one building in London or Europe and dig into its story. Different eras, styles and histories, with two rules: it has to be genuinely fascinating, and I have to have visited it myself.
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A countess, the Luftwaffe and Exeter City Council
Last week I left Exeter in the 13th century: a Roman fort that had become a walled city, a cathedral that made it the most important religious centre in the South West, and a murdered clergyman in the Close.
What happens over the next 700...
Exeter: the city at the edge of the empire
At Exeter, the motorway stops. The trainline gets slower. The data coverage gets worse. And for a while, the Roman Empire ended here too.
Exeter was founded as a frontier town, and it has the odd distinction of this reputation largely bein...
The story behind London’s most gruesome address
Stand on Greville Street, between Hatton Garden and Farringdon Station, on a weekday at just after 5, and it feels like you’re caught in a flood.
Seemingly endless waves of young professionals stream past you, eyes straight ahead, headphon...
The Abbey that helped create the Norfolk Broads, survived Henry VIII and was impaled by a windmill
An odd, incongruous building pokes out of the flat horizon. It looks at once ancient, and like a 19th century mill in Manchester. Cracked stone, hundreds of years old, wrapped around a cylindrical brick tower- two architectural worlds joine...
How Croydon started the Spanish Civil War
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about London’s Little Italy, and in doing so learned the story of Mazzini - one of Italy’s founding fathers, and his time in London.
Just a few minutes away from where he sought exile, I knew a story of Vlad...
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Architecture and history. Every week I write about a different building, usually in the UK, sometimes beyond, and the forgotten or unusual histories it opens up.
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