“The Anatomizer’s Ground” – Uncovering the history of St Olave’s, Silver Street
The City of London is home to many curious little green spaces, gardens that today are often teeming with office workers enjoying their lunch on a sunny day. The little garden pictured below is just...
View ArticleThe abandoned Temperance Hospital in Euston
Not far from London’s Euston station is a slightly spooky old derelict building. The former London Temperance Hospital on Hampstead Road has been closed for many years now, leaving a shell of...
View ArticleCarved skeletons, Elizabethan theatre giants, and a cat: St Leonard’s,...
There are so many fascinating old churches in London – however, St Leonard’s in Shoreditch is the first church where I’ve been greeted by a cat. Schrödinger, who was featured in an article on...
View ArticleMemento Mori: symbols of death in St Cuthbert’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh
If you follow a flight of steps down from Edinburgh’s busy Princes Street you’ll find a church, largely hidden by trees and surrounded by an extensive burial ground. This is St Cuthbert’s Kirk, a site...
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