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Very nice photo in the heart of London

Thomas Guy was the son of a Thames lighterman who became a bookseller and printer of Bibles in the 17thC. He made a fortune buying and selling shares in the South Sea Company, then became a philanthropist and governor of St. Thomas' Hospital. Prior to his death in 1724 he founded Guy's Hospital at Southwark. His statue stands in the hospital's courtyard

Mayfair, London

The Rutland Arms is a public house at 15 Lower Mall, Hammersmith, London, England. It was also called the Rutland Hotel. The Rutland Arms opened around 1849 and was rebuilt in the 1870s. During the Blitz, the pub lost its top floor and balcony.

Could never imagine that area was once that empty less than 100 years ago

Prepared. Strong. Ready

Anne Hathaway's Cottage

The Argentine commander then signed the final surrender of the Falklands War aboard HMS Endurance.

Had one of those wonderful crispy frosty blue sky mornings that I love but so rarely get. Anyway hope you will enjoy this one of the East Wing of Pitchford Hall so beautifully reflected in the Row Brook. West Wing too in the background ( The Generals' Quarters which is a 7 double bedroomed holiday let

Bluebell Cottage Hampshire

Odney Lane in Cookham, Berkshire, where the river is known as Lullebrook.

Oceanic House was a former office building at 1 Cockspur Street, in the City of Westminster, London. It was completed in 1907 and originally the London headquarters of the White Star Line from which tickets for the RMS Titanic were sold. After the tragic loss of the ship of dreams this famous picture of paper boy Ned Parfett was taken in this very spot. History is all around us.

Coronation of Edward IV On 28 June 1461 Edward IV was crowned and anointed at Westminster Abbey, the only part of his transformation from duke of York to king of England that had not taken part in early March. Edward had been acclaimed in London and taken possession of the throne on 4 March. This final ceremony had been deliberately delayed until his claim had been vindicated in battle. That vindication came on Palm Sunday, when the Yorkists defeated the Lancastrian army somewhere near the villages of Saxton and Towton in Yorkshire. Even then, the new regime remained insecure: Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and their supporters were still at large, while Lancastrian and Scottish forces threatened northern England and the French king, Charles VII, planned an invasion on the southern coast. The ceremony was probably postponed because of the siege of Carlisle in May. Thomas Playter told John Paston that it had been rescheduled for 28 June ‘be cause of a sege a boute Carelylle’. Rumour and uncertainty surrounded the coronation. Coronations usually took place on a Sunday, but James Gresham believed it would occur on Monday, 29 June, since the previous Feast of Holy Innocents had fallen on a Sunday making that day unlucky for the ensuing year. Nor was everyone impressed: one Londoner declared that he would as readily watch ‘the hunting of a duck’. Two days before the coronation, Edward entered London, escorted by the mayor, aldermen and 400 citizens. His brothers, George and Richard, were among those knighted in preparation for the ceremony, while several men who had served the House of York in the recent troubles were elevated to the peerage. On Sunday, Archbishops Bourchier of Canterbury and Booth of York crowned Edward king. In the two days following, the new king once again wore his crown in public ceremonies, a powerful display of the new Yorkist regime’s regal authority. Image: ‘Edward IV: The Scene at Westminster Abbey, St Peter’s Day, 1461’ by Edward Caton Woodville junior from The Illustrated London News 29 March 1902. The original caption was in error as Sunday, 28 June 1461 was the eve of the feast of St Peter and St Paul, not the feast day itself.3d

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