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Cheyne House - gate piers

SW3

We read the Library Time Machine's post about one artist's obsession with painting the large and ornamental gate piers at the entrance to Cheyne Ho...

Kings College + Trollope pillar box

WC2

This King's College's Strand Building designed by E. D. Jefferiss Mathews in the Brutalist style opened in 1972.

St Philip's Stepney

E1

AIM 25 gives the history of this church: Saint Philip's originated in a proprietary chapel built by local residents between 1817 and 1821, within ...

Joseph Beck at Barton House

N16

JMW Turner - TW12

TW12

Turner bought the land, in the deep countryside in 1807. He designed the house and it was built by 1813, as Solus Lodge. This was his country retre...

Beck and Runtz fountain

N16

Fann Street corner

EC1

For 56 years this junction had a substantial drinking fountain on the south-east corner (pictured), but now has a plaque on the west side commemora...

Centenary Hall

SE11

High on the front, at the left is the Sunday Schools plaque, and on the right the Memorial School plaque. The McArthur stone is low on the front ri...

William Shipley

WC2

Abbey Road Studios

NW8

Abbey Road Studios were opened in November 1931 by EMI. The Blumlein plaque is to the right, Elgar to the left. A live webcam has been set up on t...