More from Christina Faraday
A little Eden in the heart of the City
The story of the church of St Dunstan-in-the-East, surviving and not surviving disaster after disaster since its foundation around 1100. Expect the devil having his nose burnt, the Great Fire doing its worst, and Samuel Pepys narrowly avoiding a couple of armed rogues.
St John’s Gate, Clerkenwell and the London Palimpsest
Peel back the centuries on a walk down St John’s Lane exploring the industrial, literary and religious histories of this street.
Unlikely Neighbours in Tavistock Place
Two blue plaques, almost side-by-side in Tavistock Place, commemorate very different people. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the founder of the USSR with no sense of humour, and Jerome K Jerome, a British humourist with a sceptical take on Socialism.
