October 2025 archive

A Palace in Disguise

The northern approach to the Blackwall Tunnel isn’t the most inspiring landscape.  A building on the left not far from the big Tesco’s near Bromley by Bow looks to the casual glance like, perhaps, an Edwardian public library or maybe a business headquarters that has had an adventurous life.  It’s been a lot of things:  …

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