In last autumn’s issue of bloomsbury {today} I introduced a number of new tenants who had recently taken leases of property on the Estate. I said then that we only had one vacant office building left available for occupation on the Estate...
Whilst the Congestion Charge has gone some way to abate the traffic problem in central London, traffic still remains a major drawback. The area of Bloomsbury is arguably only spoilt by the voluminous amount of traffic on its roads...
Secreted within the mammoth concrete edifice of Bloomsbury’s iconic Brunswick Centre, you will find one of London’s finest second hand bookshops. Skoob Books first opened in Covent Garden in 1979, a year later moving to the architecturally ornate...
In 1839 when Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford (1788-1861), inherited the Estate, the country was in the midst of the Industrial Revolution. The very nature of business was rapidly changing and the forward thinking 7th Duke was more than aware of this...
Bloomsbury’s St George’s church has long been beloved of architects, critics, historians, tourists and its parishioners, but for the past few years the church has been cloaked in scaffolding whilst restorative work has been carried out on the building...
Preserving a listed place of peace
For over a hundred years Bloomsbury residents have been to the Middlesex Hospital as patients, relatives and friends and sometimes as members of staff. Now, it is to be demolished and its tiny but beautiful Italian Gothic Grade II listed Chapel, with its...
Home to the Dukes of Bedford for nearly 400 years and set in the largest park in England surrounded by hundreds of deer, Woburn Abbey continues to be the much loved home of the Russell family...
Whats on? Details of events from April - June
Find out what's on in Bloomsbury between April and June 2005...