All that remains of St Martins is the road that was named after it just north of St Paul’s Cathedral. … More
Author: Pete
I am semi-retired after a career in medical sciences. I now work from home doing independent research and consultancy amongst other things. One advantage of this is that I do have time to indulge my interests including birdwatching, natural history, steam trains and history particularly ancient history.
Black-Crowned Night Heron
The black crowned night Heron is a small Heron species is found in southern Europe, North and South America, Africa … More
Free Course on History of Portus
The short course I did through Southampton University is still available through FutureLearn or at: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/portus
Visualising Portus
Here are a couple of videos on the visualisation project
Portus: Port of Rome
A couple of years back I had the opportunity to do a short course run by the University of Southampton … More
Fitzrovia Chapel (3)
Some more photographs of the magnificent Fitzrovia Chapel in central London.
The London fences made from stretchers
Originally posted on Stephen Liddell:
Famously many of the iron and steel railings in the U.K. were removed and melted down…
Turbulent waters
On the way back from Southend on the Jacob Marley, I became fascinated with the water being ejected from the … More
Ships of the Medway
John H Amos A steam paddle tug built on the Clyde for the Tees Conservancy. Its main function was towing … More
Fitzrovia Chapel (2)
I do love marble and here are some photographs of some of the great variety of types of marble found … More
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