What was the secretive Kit-Cat club?
The Kit-Cat Club began as a dangerous secret society out to overthrow the king but evolved into a harmless dinner party club for rich gentlemen
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Londoners riot at the building of Somerset House
Edward Seymour built the original Tudor palace of Somerset House and caused riots in London by tearing down other people’s houses as Tony McMahon discovers
Terrible accident at St Mary-le-Strand
St Mary-le-Strand has been an unloved London church, viewed as a bit of a problem. This wasn’t helped by a terrible accident in the early nineteenth century, which I’ll detail below, caused by its shoddy construction. In 1887, The Daily Telegraph asked: “What is to be done with the internally handsome, externally cumbrous, and obstructive…
Hotel Cecil – a hotel built on scandal
Where flappers went to dance in 1920s London – the Cecil Hotel on the Strand