One of the joys of golf on the Old Course is playing with a genuine St Andrews caddie. Here is a group of caddies circa 1910 — the age when amateur Horace Hutchinson sneered at them as ‘feckless, reckless creatures whose only loves are golf and whisky.’ #golfhistory

A view of the M602, prior to the opening in 1971 when pedestrians were allowed to walk it. Photo by George Shepherd

The original Pennsylvania Station, opened in 1910 and demolished 54 years later.

Airview of the Forbidden City, 1930s.

Today's new post - one of my father's post war photos from St Paul's Cathedral of the ruins of Christchurch Greyfriars from the story of this historic church at alondoninheritance.com

Today's new post, - exploring the history of the bombed church of Christchurch Greyfriars at alondoninheritance.com

Workers' tenements (1882) of the old Stag Brewery, Palace Street, London SW1, nowcbeing turned into (luxury, of course) flats. But I didn't know it would be an exercise in facadism, with all the innards eviscerated.

600-year-old Jiming Post House 鸡鸣驿， the largest, best-preserved and most distinctive ancient post house along the north post road in ancient China, Huailai County, about 93 miles (150 kilometers) to the northwest of central  Beijing.

A very different Bankside, photographed in 1953 with Southwark Cathedral in the distance. The lost Horseshoe Alley and stairs in the foreground, from my post alondoninheritance.com/london-streets…

Southwark Cathedral in 1953 from Winchester Walk. The view is almost exactly the same today. The cathedral is explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-churche…

There are people who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. — Lawrence Durrell, on Islomanes & Islomania Ortelius (1584)

It's not new and it's not a river but it has been bringing fresh water to London for over 400 years. Read here about the history of the New River thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-new-river-…

It is smothered in trees which curve over it, and as you enter the gate the gloom of dense oleander branches envelops you; I can't tell you what wonderful peace and quiet it is. Life at times begins to get its old prismatic hue. — Lawrence Durrell Villa Cleobolus/Paul Hogarth

Haatch Ventures leads Financielle pre-seed funding round - privateequitywire.co.uk/2022/06/07/315… #Deals #Intelligence

Emily Dickinson on why we read and the magic of old books themarginalian.org/2022/07/29/emi…

A sort of curvy Downing Street just off the Strand.

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill... They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print" Barbara Tuchman

My piece in Metro today about my Dad, Infected Blood Inquiry and Factor 8. It’s only one of the many stories illustrating why the government must act now on #ContaminatedBlood.

Please Steve Barclay can we get more than the standard line on the Infected Blood compensation Question due from Stuart McDonald in Department of Health and Social Care questions today? Action needed.

This is my story. My dad. My truth.