http://www.drownedworld.co.uk Livin' in the past Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:46:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've always liked the buildings of Nicholas Hawksmoor. Even as a kid I remember driving past St Anne's Limehouse on the road from Essex to central London and thinking it was different to other churches. Hawksmoor, an architect and student of Christopher Wren, designed six churches as part of the ... http://www.drownedworld.co.uk/2008/02/10/hawksmoor-part-i-st-georges-bloomsbury/ Unlike most British places that were bombed in World War II, Essex wasn't targeted due to being an industrial area or a shipyard. Because the south-east corner of the country sits on the mouth of the Thames it was the likely point in which the Axis forces would try and ... http://www.drownedworld.co.uk/2008/01/16/life-during-wartime/ The Horniman Museum in South London is way off the usual tourist trail so you can wander round in relative* peace compared to places like The British Museum and The Natural History Museum. It was opened in 1901 by Frederick John Horniman after he began collecting specimens and artefacts from ... http://www.drownedworld.co.uk/2008/01/16/the-horniman-museum/ Leigh-on-Sea has been around since Domesday times and it's my hometown. It's started off as a fishing and boatbuilding town but when the railyway to London was built in 1851 it became a commuter town. These days it's all bad hair salons, trashy clothes at high prices, gastro-bars and lots ... http://www.drownedworld.co.uk/2008/01/11/leigh-on-sea/ A new year, a new blog. It was time for a change and since moving back to London, I've started taking more photos again. Same deal as the last blog, photos of London, bits of history plus any other interesting stuff I come across. I'm also going to try and ... http://www.drownedworld.co.uk/2008/01/09/mmiix/ The Cathars were a group of herectics that were based in south-western France during the 12th century. They believed in a form of Gnosticism and duality (that the world was not created by the true God, but a lesser destructive god called the Demiurge). They came at odds with the ... http://www.drownedworld.co.uk/2007/02/14/deconstructing-towers/