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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The mystery of the Shell Grotto, Margate
Halfway up a steep street in Margate, in a residential area a short walk from the town centre, is a nondescript building.
Walk in, pay a small fee, and head down. You’ll find yourself in a labyrinthine passage, dimly lit. It covers over 2,...
African liberation in leafy North London
An ordinary terraced house with an extraordinary history. Sourced via Wikipedia
It’s a quiet street. It curves as it slopes, gently rolling down hill. Trees line it and, behind them, neat rows of brick Victorian terraces.
A minute’s walk...
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...
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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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