Posts Tagged ‘Victorian’

I’ve written previously about Nunhead cemetery, and it’s still somewhere I never tire of visiting to unwind (the pictures above were taken a few months ago). It’s the only one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ Victorian cemeteries that I’ve got round to visiting, so it was with great interest (and some jealousy) that I read Ian [...]

I was in Covent Garden the other day and decided to take a little detour across the Strand to Carting Lane, which is home to London’s only remaining sewer lamp. The Webb Patent Sewer Gas Lamp was invented in the late 19th century, primarily as a means to burn off smells from the sewers running [...]