Regent’s Canal named after Prince Regent, later George IV, is part of London’s Grand Union Canal, spanning London Zoom Camden Market, Victoria warehouses and celebrity hangouts, Little Venice, and was originally built to link the huge Grand Junction Canal’s Paddington branch with the River Thames. One-way journey along the canal from Little Venice also known…
Get dazzled by Camden Lock, the 1902’s tube station Staples Market with diverse traders and hawkers. Camden Town station, which opened in 1902, was used as an interchange by Charing Cross, Euston, and Hampstead railway the forerunner of today’s Northern Line tube, serving as the point where customers going north could transfer between services. Now…
The Himalayas spanning for over two thousand kilometers through several countries from Pakistan to Myanmar via Nepal, India, Tibet, and Bhutan, where the world’s religions of Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism are interspersed with ancient shamanic beliefs, where different cultures exist in these isolated mountain valleys, Modernity and tradition collide while the great powers fight for…
Behind Closed Doors is the result of a decade of research and writing on London clubs, based on exclusive behind-the-scenes access to archives and proceedings, as well as a love of gossip and scandal. The ups and downs of London Clubland which grew to spread around the world, with its four hundred clubs, and how…
Bronze Lion Heads with mooring rings in their mouth line the Victoria Embankment, on the northern bank of river Thames, was created for Bazalgette’s new embankments in 1868, with a Mystic rhyme “ accessible via Temple ( Circle and District line), When the Lions drink, London will sink. When it’s up to their manes, we’ll…
The Cloaca Maxima, ( Cloaca, Roman goddess), one of the world’s earliest sewage systems and a sacred symbol of Roman culture and Roman engineering, was built during either the Roman Kingdom or the early Roman Republic, around 600 BC, under the orders of the King of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus, to drain local marshes and remove…
“Secreet Wonderland Lovers of waterways, Lovers of boats and birds, Lovers of unusual gardens..Meanwhile Gardens has all and more….. When you fancy a little stroll where you can see water and sloping grassy hills together with moored narrow boats – sometimes complete with a cat, sporting flowers and immensely artistic painted titles plus bikes, and…
“SECRET Wonderland– A NEW SATURN HERALD OCCASIONAL COLUMN Lovers of London History, Lovers of Real Ales, Lovers of Writers – This “watering hole” has something for all…. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese – 145 Fleet Street, Wine Office Court, City of London EC4A 2BU, nestles behind a fairly or even very modest entrance, close to the…