Oxford’s Cabinet of Curiosities: The Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford’s Cabinet of Curiosities: The Pitt Rivers Museum
A South West London Renaissance: The Battersea Power Station
Discovering Battersea’s Open Spaces: a walking guide - Book review
Here’s a review I wrote for the Wandsworth Historical Society Issue No. 112, Autumn 2021.
Battersea’s Poltergeist
Have you watched Timothy Spall’s The Enfield Haunting? It is arguably Britain’s most famous poltergeist phenomena, having also been the subject of the sequel to the Conjuring film.
But back in 1956, a more famous case of poltergeist took place not too far from Chelsea, which was heavily reported by the press and eventually made its way in a House of Commons debate…..
Battersea and the new age of leisure
This year we celebrate 150 years of the Royal Albert Hall, a reminder of the legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Whilst the story of the Crystal Palace that hosted the exhibition is well documented, more obscure is Battersea’s own Albert Palace, erected in 1885 facing the southern end of Battersea Park along Prince of Wales Drive….
Wandsworth’s Huguenots
Wandsworth’s Victorian masterpiece
Wandsworth most spectacular building , orphanage, school, spy centre, hospital…