Jill Finch

On this day in 1702, a remarkable woman created Britain's first-ever newspaper! 🤩 londonist.com/london/history…

The Baker Street & Waterloo Railway opened on 10 March 1906, running initially between Baker Street and Kennington Road (now Lambeth North). The Evening News nicknamed it, "Bakerloo" was officially adopted in July 1906. Over 36,000 passengers used the new line on its first day.

This afternoon @StPaulsLondon Carol Service - perfect start to the Festive Season

Master's Court with lanterns... #history looks different by #candlelight!

Ring this doorbell and enter a stunning library in Piccadilly - which you're free to peruse londonist.com/london/secret/…

Grinling Gibbons in St James Piccadilly #WrenChurches

Why I’m in Venice…

Thomas Hood #poetry

Okay - confession time - I am a HUGE Tom Selleck fan - since Magnum P I. After a long day in @StPaulsLondon and a trip home in the rain I am watching him as Jesse Stone in the T V adaptations of Robert B Parker’s novels - perfect Friday night viewing

Time Flies. Mind your business. Clock on Furneux Pelham Church, Hertfordshire

In Purley recently to do a talk fora U3A group and passed this building - once the Astoria Cinema now flats - with fab mosaic outside

Interesting to see this at London’s @towerhilltube . I’ve been working hard to make many more of these women known… but let’s remember them all!

Have just done my last walk for 2025 and I AM SOAKED

After the Louvre heist, artworks decided to defend themselves.

London in the Swinging Sixties - the whole place was vibrant, fab and groovy - and before this tweet gets ripped to shreds by the younger generation, remember - that could be your Nan or Grandad you’re ridiculing!… #eastend #London #history

Ta-da! Seventeenth century glass at Abbey Dore, Herefordshire

This door at Eastwood church in Essex dates from about 1150, which is extremely rare. The hinge has an inscription which (more or less) says ‘blessings on those who come and go’.

I've cleaned up this gorgeous Victorian photograph of Dickensian London, overshadowed by the sheer magnitude & dominance of St Paul's Cathedral. It was photographed by John Leighton 166 years ago, back in 1859. I think the mooring poles in the foreground almost lend a Venetian air to the image, and the definition is so high, one can almost zoom right into those warehouse windows!

"Operator, connect me to Holborn 1696" An early phone number on the sign next to the (former) George Attenborough goldsmiths on the corner of Fleet St and Chancery Lane.

700 year tower of All Hallows Staining has been suspended 45 feet above ground as part of a major City of London building project, balanced on stilts above a 60,000 sq ft excavation site. I find my old night time picture more favourable. What are they doing?