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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  • 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.
  • Let’s face it, John Keats pretty much set the template for what we expect from Romantic poets – curly hair, brown eyes, a couple of […] The post Palely loitering in Moorgate: the new John Keats memorial first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • To the high seas! with tales of exploration, piracy and 1970’s ‘practical archeology’. We’re on Bankside, at St Mary Overy Dock. ‘St Mary Overy’ was […] The post The Bankside Reconstruction of Drake’s ‘The Golden Hinde’ first appeared on Stuff About London.
  • Have you heard of the family Stein? There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein Gert’s poetry’s bunk Ep’s statues are junk And no one […] The post Epstein’s Einstein at the V&A first appeared on Stuff About London.