Saturday, 3 November 2018

Scars of WW2 in South Kensington

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If you’ve ever visited London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (commonly known as the V&A) in South Kensington, you probably went in via the...
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Friday, 12 October 2018

Introducing "Random Encounters on the London Tourist Trail"

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Three years ago this month Andrew May and myself penned a Fortean Traveller article for Fortean Times titled Oddities of the Jurassic C...
Tuesday, 15 May 2018

James Bond's London Home

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A few roads over from Chester Square in London where the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, lived from 1846 to 1851 is the home of anoth...
Saturday, 3 March 2018

Secrets of Mithras in London

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The above picture shows the remains of London’s Mithraeum, or Temple of Mithras. Although the temple dates from the 3rd century, and was r...
Wednesday, 28 February 2018

The London House Where Frankenstein’s Mother Died

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Chester Square in Belgravia, just to the south-west of Buckingham Palace, is one of London’s most expensive addresses. Chester Square was bu...
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Saturday, 24 February 2018

A tour of Polperro, alias Saxton

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On a very hot day last summer I made a trip to Polperro on the south coat of Cornwall. I’d been meaning to go there for a long time – not...
Thursday, 15 February 2018

Finding Shackleton’s Crow’s Nest in one of London’s Oldest Churches

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The church shown in the below photos is All Hallows-by-the-Tower, which is located on Byward Street near the Tower of London. Dating from ...