London tales and stories

Want to know more about quirky London stuff, see inside museums, discover less well-known parts of the capital? Why not follow my blog at www.stuffaboutlondon.co.uk? You can see excerpts from the most recent half a dozen posts below, but there are well over 100 more on the website.

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  • For men of a certain age (a demographic that to which I very squarely belong), those brought up with war comics, Airfix models and the […] The post The Rolls Royce Merlin – the engine that won WW2 first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • It’s often said that if you spend your time just looking at street level then you miss a huge amount of the art and history […] The post Piccadilly Sculptures – old(ish) and new(ish) first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • Thanks to everyone who has visited the blog this year, passed comments, shared on Facebook or whatever. It’s been another record-breaking (for me) year, with […] The post The stuffaboutlondon review of 2024 first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • It has been estimated (by whom, I have no idea, but let’s roll with it), that London has more trees than people. That means more […] The post The “McGill Oak” Tree on Strand and the “Great Storm” first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • For quite some time I’ve had links from book reviews and such like to Amazon, and in nearly ten years of blogging I’ve made the […] The post Support this blog by buying books first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • Step onto Clapham Common from the eponymous tube station and looming in front of you is a large drinking fountain. By the German sculptor August […] The post Clapham Common’s Temperance Fountain first appeared on Stuff About London.