Herry's Journal

Wandsworth Common  Until 1850, only about 300 people lived in the area known as South Battersea. The land had originally belonged to th...

Martin Sixsmith's   Russia: the Wild East - explores the history of this great land and for the first time for me explains why Russia...

Jean Shrimpton at the Dolls' House Museum by Terry O'Neill I was lucky enough to see two photographic exhibitions in London th...

Wanting, Liking, Doing  by Luke Dickinson, originally uploaded by onform . Click the heading for his website See also photos from Barbar...

Most people probably think of the City of London as a grey place of enormous office buildings. Not so; at least it's only partly tru...

One of the visitors to this Journal has suggested this spring-time poem by Edward Thomas. IT was a perfect...

The Lord Mayor gave the now annual lunch at the Guildhall to raise money for the Soldiers' Charity (ABF) on a glorious spring day. The ...

The City Livery Companies come together once a year to commemorate their origins as religious as well as commercial fraternities at a s...

Spring in St James' Park. Click the heading for more photos