Category Archives: ENGLAND

London: Summing Up

Posted on March 23, 2017 by

IN THE PAST WEEK, I’ve been all around London, from the mews of Mayfair to the thrift shops of Dalston, from the obsessively planted Avenue Gardens of Regents Park to the tiny back gardens of friends in Islington, from David … Continue reading →

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Old York, Old York

Posted on March 17, 2017 by

LONDON HAS ENOUGH 17th, 18th and 19th century houses to keep an old-house aficionado busy for years. But because the Great Fire of 1666 swept away nearly the whole of the city, it’s lacking in domestic architecture that predates the … Continue reading →

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 The British Museum, Housing the World’s Treasures for Us All

Posted on March 16, 2017 by

  LONDONERS LOVE THEIR INFREQUENT SUNSHINE, as I learned the other day on the way to the British Museum. From my top-deck bus seat, I saw them out in force, basking in any available square of green, like Gray’s Inn Field, … Continue reading →

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London: Victorian Holland Park, Preserved in Amber

Posted on March 13, 2017 by

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD, another historic house museum…in yesterday’s drizzle I took the Tube to Holland Park, en route to 18 Stafford Terrace, the perfectly preserved upper-middle class home of Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne and his family. The Sambournes moved … Continue reading →

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London: Sunday Sail to Greenwich

Posted on March 13, 2017 by

MUCH IS NEW in London since I was last here a decade ago, development spurred largely by the 2012 London Olympics. Not least of the improvements are the new Overground train service, which makes access to central London from some … Continue reading →

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London: A Dickensian Day with Pubs Aplenty

Posted on March 11, 2017 by

IT WAS MORE THE HOUSE — a late Regency row house in Holborn that I knew would have similarities with the two mid-19th c. houses I own in Brooklyn — than any particular connection with Charles Dickens that brought me … Continue reading →

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A Sunny, Art-full Day in London Town

Posted on March 10, 2017 by

SUNNY AND IN THE 60s…I can’t complain about yesterday’s weather in London. And there’s something about the sky. When it’s not gray (as it so often is, and is again today, Friday), it’s particularly, poignantly beautiful. I visited two of … Continue reading →

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