At Dublin’s St Stephen’s Green, musicians were packing away their instruments after an afternoon performance on the park’s fine bandstand, but the appreciative crowd wasn’t going anywhere. As the set-down music kicked in, people kept on dancing on the grass in front of the stage. Elsewhere in this […]
Intersected by a main road and blighted by an open air car park, Cecil Square today seems little more than a busy traffic hub. While there are clearly some interesting heritage buildings on one side, the eye is drawn to the ghastly post war concrete library structure on […]
Hidden away at the foot of the splendid Avon Gorge in Bristol, there are a few streets of houses that thousands wiz past everyday on their journey into the city. Most probably don’t stop to blink at the heritage they are missing. With little more than pubs, average […]
Until 1750 the only crossing point in England’s capital over the Thames was London Bridge, a factor vastly limiting development on the south side of the river. But in that year, after much wrangling, Westminster Bridge finally opened, followed by Blackfriars Bridge in 1769. The significance of these […]
Past In The Present 