It all started with a Tea Dance
It all started with a Tea Dance … Bringing back and making memories … Silver Sunday has become a national campaign tackling loneliness that affects so many older people. “Our…
Horse Guards Parade from the gates of St James's Park
The gateway to a fairy kingdom?
Dugald Sandeman once worked in an office with a view – one of Horse Guards Parade where, against the backdrop of the elegant and graceful Guard House, the annual ceremony to mark the sovereign’s birthday takes place every June
Memories of little Nipper in Oxford Street
How a little Jack Russell terrier became the mascot of a record label and the symbol of the now closed flagship HMV shop in London Sad and shuttered, the HMV…
Architectural impression of the new north entrance to the National Portrait Gallery
A new look for the nation’s family album
Across the capital, art galleries and museums have been silent since March, but the National Portrait Gallery will now remain closed for a further three years, beyond the COVID lockdown, while it undergoes a major revamp
Handel’s Hanoverian Heritage
St George’s Church in Mayfair is the hub for the annual celebrations to commemorate the life and work of the great maestro by Janice Liverseidge The great composer George Frideric…
Welcome to Our New Guides! Class of 2019 Celebrate at Badge Ceremony
On the evening of Monday 1 July 2019 we enjoyed the Badge Ceremony for our twelfth cohort of graduates. We held the event in the Lord Mayor’s Parlour on the…
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London’s Notorious Roads: The Westway
The Westway is 50 years old and must rank as one of the capital’s most notorious roads. One of London planners’ homages to Le Corbusier’s grand visions of Cities in…
Local Walks for Local People
What is your Westminster? Parks and palaces, politics and power, pomp and ceremony, or arts and culture? We Guides are spoiled for choice – Westminster has it all, and in…