Dark parliaments: The House of Uncommons and The Other Other Place
The recent silencing, for maintenance reasons, of the bell known as Big Ben met a suitably muted response from theContinue Reading
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Cursed gifts and untold visions: The Headless Statues of Crystal Palace Park
There is much to be written about the drifts of psychic memory that swirl through Crystal Palace Park. The famousContinue Reading
Hidden worlds: The Stoke Newington Nursery Vanishing
Halfway along Stoke Newington Church Street is a rift. A lost world of leaf, iron and stone; a crouching, broodingContinue Reading
Victoria and Albert and the Stardoor: The Vacuum Sugar Event
A giant shop window, a flashing of the spoils of imperial conquest, a chance to position monarchy side by sideContinue Reading
Door to Nowhere: The Blackheath Vanishments
This is a short post to aggregate some of the stories concerning what locals have come to call ‘The BlackheathContinue Reading
Portals of London 