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Tag Archives: Leicester Square
Austerity, Car Parks and Concrete
I looked last week at the fate of London’s squares during wartime, and one might have thought that things couldn’t get much worse. Unfortunately, as in many other areas of post-war life they did. There was no quick recovery and … Continue reading
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Tagged art history, Bloomsbury, conservation, Leicester Square, London Square, railings, Soho, War
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The Square at War
This post is another in my series about London squares and will look at what happened to them during the war. They were dug up for allotments and bomb shelters, used as bases for barrage balloons and most famously had … Continue reading
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Tagged art history, Bloomsbury, conservation, Leicester Square, London Square, railings, Russell square, War
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Before the Square
I’m often asked to talk about the history of London’s squares and I always wonder what causes this almost endless fascination. Of course there’s no doubt that, as the London Gardens Trust says, “squares are one of the defining … Continue reading
Christmas in the Park…
I had planned to do another of my slightly off-beat approaches to a Christmas post – and was looking at Shirley Hibberd’s monograph on Ivy for inspiration – when into my inbox came a post from a fascinating botanical blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Blenheim, chiswick, conservation, English Heritage, kew, Leicester Square, National Trust, public parks, Saltram, tourism, Waddesdon
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