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Lovely new café just opened at Church House, Great Smith Street, Westminster opposite the Abbey Centre and the Cinnamon Club

Thanks to Anthony Rawlinson for a fascinating tour yesterday for Thorney members around his home turf, St James’s Square. The house behind is on the market for £250m so be quick.

Does anyone know what this very curious statue is at the junction of Millbank and Horseferry Road (on the same building as Ada Lovelace)

Free supplies of water for man and beast in Victoria Street

Spires of Westminster

Preparing for the landscape artist of the year event in St James’s Park tomorrow.

Foster and Partners’ design has been chosen for the national memorial for Queen Elizabeth ll in St James’s Park which will also feature Prince Philip

Astonishing - a mature lemon tree has been growing for years near our archive without being noticed.

Painters near the Landscape Artist of the Year (Sky Arts) competition in St James’s Park yesterday

Lovely performance by the Sinfonia Smith Square orchestra at the 40th anniversary of the formation of the Thorney Island Society at City Hall last night.

Huge thanks to the Lord Mayor of Westminster Paul Dimoldenberg for giving us a gift of vital documents about the creation of the Thorney Island Society 40 years ago. We will treasure them.

Beautiful sculptures in an exhibition at the Onion Garden, Seaforth Place Victoria flickr.com/gp/shakespeare…

Booking (free) has now started for Victor Keegan’s Open House talks on the history of Thorney Island at our Archive in September programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/11805

Largest vine in the area? (Millbank Estate)

Westmimster from a balloon 1884 (Credit Institution of Civil Engineers)

Another temporary view of the Abbey while 1 Victoria Street is demolished. Why on earth can’t developers be forced to retain classic views

St James’s Park is ablaze with wild flowers

Good atmosphere building on The Mall ⁦The Royal Parks⁩ ahead of the Lionesses Victory Parade ⁦Royal Parks Guild⁩ ⁦Thorney Island Society+ Friends of St James’s Park⁩ ⁦The FA⁩

Why can’t this marvellous view of Westminster Abbey from way down Victoria Street be preserved? Give the developers an option to build a tower block elsewhere on their vast site before they rebuild. It’s never too late!