Here are the five best free viewing platforms in the City of London, and how to get into them.
if central London has anything approaching a beach club, it is probably the Founders Arms on Bankside.
They have conquered the suburbs. They have mastered the railway lines. They know when the bins go out. Now London’s foxes have access to Parliament.
London is very good at hiding things in plain sight. Entire alleys vanish between shopfronts. Courtyards sit behind blank doors.
London is miles from the sea and even further from the warm, bright waters where tropical coral reefs usually belong. And yet, it is playing a small but significant part in saving the world’s coral reefs.
London’s railway age did not begin beneath the grand iron ribs of King’s Cross, nor in the Gothic drama of St Pancras, but in Bermondsey.
At roughly 4.5 hectares (about 11 acres), it is significantly larger than Leicester Square or Trafalgar Square.
One of the most disturbing examples in modern London crime is the long-running feud between two rival Turkish/Kurdish organised-crime groups: the Hackney Turks, also known as the Hackney Bombers or Bombacilar, and the Tottenham Turks, sometimes called the Tottenham Boys.
One of the strangest Sherlock Holmes stories ever attached to Baker Street did not come from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s pen. It came from a gang of real criminals, a closed leather goods shop, a basement, a tunnel, a 100-ton jack, gelignite, and a Lloyds Bank vault full of safety deposit boxes.
It is one of the starkest images of London’s housing crisis: a man with no money sleeping outside a billionaire-owned property that no one appears to use.
If you’ve spent enough time walking the streets of London, you may have spotted one of the city’s true originals: RastaRolla,
The extraordinary story of the London pub that rose from the rubble.
Fluorescent jackets, radios, patrol cars, and men who arrive quickly when something goes wrong.
From classic rock anthems to modern pop hits, London’s heart beats in the soundtrack of its own making.
A small flock of sheep is returning to Hampstead Heath and volunteers are being sought to help look after them.
In that murky half-light between fact and legend stands one of the most vivid figures of the old London underworld: Gypsy Hill.
Threading quietly through clay and darkness, sits a parallel version of the Underground: a network of stations that no longer exist.
Somewhere in a school playground or academy yard, beneath a grey sky and the smell of instant coffee, lies the lamp, leather jacket or box of vinyl you suddenly feel destined to own.
London’s Cosmic House is one of the strangest, cleverest private houses in the city: a Holland Park villa turned postmodern manifesto, cosmic joke, architectural puzzle box and museum.
Olympia is midway through a £1.3 billion transformation designed to turn the historic exhibition complex into a full-blown new London neighbourhood.
London is full of unofficial capitals. Southall has long been called Little India. Golders Green has its Jewish bakeries, delis
London’s wildlife is a reminder that even in one of the world’s most densely populated cities, nature has a way of carving out its own space.
A new Banksy has appeared in Central London.
This time its not graffiti but a sculpture
The strange story of Kim Jong Un’s London suburban house.
There is a brief stretch each spring when London goes gloriously over the top. Quiet streets turn theatrical. Front doors
Tucked behind the polished theatre of Piccadilly and a short, knowing stroll from Green Park, Shepherd Market sits like a secret that never
Islington doesn’t advertise itself loudly. It just gets on with being one of London’s most liveable, walkable, quietly self-assured neighbourhoods.
Canning Town has never really traded on charm. It is not one of those parts of London that arrives gift-wrapped but…
London does eccentricity well, but sometimes the city doesn’t even need to try. In Chelsea, on the corner of Drayton
There are pubs you stumble into, and pubs you have to find. The Grenadier belongs firmly to the latter
