It’s all in a name - The Linnaean Society
It’s all in a name - The Linnaean Society…
Dean William Buckland - A Victorian eccentric
Dean William Buckland....
Made in Chelsea Pt.1: Mary Quant & her bazaar of earthly delights
How Mary Quant changed fashion from her Bazaar
Top Victorian Architect in South Battersea
Top Victorian Architect in South Battersea
Herencia fugaz: Abraham Osorio, un Muralista salvadoreño en Londres
Herencia fugaz: Abraham Osorio, un muralista salvadoreño en Londres
Fleeting Heritage: Abraham Osorio, a Salvadorean Street Artist In London
Fleeting Heritage: Abraham Osorio, a Salvadorean Street Artist in London
Oxford’s Cabinet of Curiosities: The Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford’s Cabinet of Curiosities: The Pitt Rivers Museum
Christ Mocked, HIeronimus Bosch
The National Gallery’s only work, by this Renaissance Surrealist pioneer….
The Annunciation With St Emidius, carlo Crivelli
International Gothic or Renaissance?
The Wandsworth Common Story: A 150th Anniversary celebration - Book review
The Wandsworth Common Story: A 150th Anniversary Celebration
The Richmond murderess
The Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
A South West London Renaissance: The Battersea Power Station
Battersea’s Victorian infrastructure
Pimlico Railway Terminus and other interesting infrastructure in 1859
King’s Road’s Lion
Here’s a review I wrote for the Wandsworth Historical Society Issue No. 112, Autumn 2021.
Discovering Battersea’s Open Spaces: a walking guide - Book review
Here’s a review I wrote for the Wandsworth Historical Society Issue No. 112, Autumn 2021.
Murder on Barnes Terrace
Battersea’s Poltergeist
Have you watched Timothy Spall’s The Enfield Haunting? It is arguably Britain’s most famous poltergeist phenomena, having also been the subject of the sequel to the Conjuring film.
But back in 1956, a more famous case of poltergeist took place not too far from Chelsea, which was heavily reported by the press and eventually made its way in a House of Commons debate…..
Mosaic House
Mortlake Tapestry
Opposite the church of St Mary the Virgin Mortlake a path named Tapestry Court leads to the river. Here you will find a plaque memorialising the 17th century Lower Dutch House, one of the former buildings of the Mortlake Tapestry….