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Category: London

Docklands

29th September 2020 Sandra

Teesside is not the only place where the location of the port has moved downstream over time. Yarm gave way…

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Posted in: London, Transport Filed under: docklands, London, port, redevelopment

Chelsea Buns

25th May 2020 Sandra

When I asked the Smith family to test a London recipe for Blog About Britain, they couldn’t choose between Tottenham…

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Posted in: Location, London, Recipes Filed under: buns, London, recipe

Tottenham Cake

18th May 2020 Sandra

This week’s “Baked Geography” is from London, specifically Tottenham, which is an area of north London about 6 miles (10…

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Posted in: Location, London, Recipes Filed under: cake, recipe, tottenham cake

The History of Time

27th January 2020 Sandra

Last week we learnt that the position of the telescope, called the Airy Transit Circle, gave us the position of…

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Posted in: Location, London Filed under: GMT, Greenwich, longitude, meridian, time

Timing it Right

20th January 2020 Sandra

Why bother with longitude?  Do we really need to know how far east or west we are?  If you were…

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Posted in: Location, London Filed under: GMT, Greenwich, longitude, meridian

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