Sunday 5th at 11am celebrate the Arts and Crafts and Idealism of Hampstead Garden Suburb near the anniversary of the first sod of land being dug in May 1907. eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-tour… Footprints of London London Historians HGS Trust Hampstead Garden Suburb Virtual Museum ʜᴀᴍᴘsᴛᴇᴀᴅ ɢᴀʀᴅᴇɴ sᴜʙᴜʀʙ ᴀʀᴄʜɪᴠᴇs St Jude, Hampstead Garden Suburb

I have already been upbraided on Facebook by an E.L. Wisty type for referring to 'Highbury' rather than 'Arsenal Stadium'.

We enjoyed a most agreeable tour of Arsenal yesterday, incl. the remaining bits of the old stadium, the Emirates and the club museum. Our thanks for the hospitality. #arsenal #arsenal fc #highbury #emirates Arsenal

#OTD in 1828, the London Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park opened (AKA London Zoo). The Royal Menagerie had previously been housed The Tower of London 🏰 for >600 years, but moved out on the orders of The Duke of Wellington, Constable of The Tower.

Today is the 25th anniversary of the unsolved murder of BBC presenter and newscaster Jill Dando, outside her Fulham home, aged 37. #OTD #Dando #jilldando en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Dando

From Waterloo Bridge: Sun Bursting through Fog. c.1924. Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson.

This is fabulous news and congratulations! #firstfolio

Was it the episode where Terry absent-mindedly put their butt plug in the charity collection bag? Terry and June. #bbc

We understand this has come back. Developers always come back: they have all the time and all the money. Campaigners do not. coventgarden.org.uk/oh-no-another-…

We are delighted that our readers are enjoying our latest monograph on G. E. Street. Buy a copy here: thevictoriansociety.beaconforms.com/form/d38ed168
#GEStreet bicentenary #GEStreet 200 #Victorian #architecture #heritage #GEStreet

The history, design, construction and function of the Post Office Tower and the pub named after the tower in today’s new post at alondoninheritance.com

A Londoner of great note.

Our Vic Soc President in action. Jumbo has been on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list for too long. It is such an important building for Colchester’s identity and history. We hope the Trust gets the funding to sensitively restore Jumbo and provide a sustainable future.

Tomorrow afternoon join me to explore Cultural Clerkenwell and walk in the footsteps of Shakespeare, Dickens and even Lenin. And see up close the site that gives Clerkenwell its name. (Islington Walks) eventbrite.co.uk/e/cultural-cle…

Between our bank The Co-operative Bank UK (another 40 mins wait this morning) and our Internet provider Zen Internet it's been an uphill kind of a week so far. 😡

#theapprentice final coming up. The Apprentice

Tonight we launched the latest book in the Society’s Victorian Architects Series which is the first monograph devoted to G. E. Street, whose bicentenary we are celebrating this year. The co-authors are Geoff Brandwood, Peter Howell, and Peter Taylor. Buy on the link in our bio.

Just waited in a queue for nearly an hour (they said it was 35 mins at the top of the call) only to lose the line mysteriously. The Co-operative Bank UK. Their phone and online banking are both completely primitive. Changing bank is such a palaver though. But I may have to. Enough.

Wow. This is marvellous news. A big fuss was made this morning at St James's Square to commemorate this anniversary and properly to remember Yvonne Fletcher. Well done, all concerned.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

Sorry, it was only 59. Point remains.