Pickering Place: London’s Smallest Public Square

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Eric Patcham

London is very good at hiding things in plain sight. Entire alleys vanish between shopfronts. Courtyards sit behind blank doors.…

Inside the South London Lab Helping to Save the World’s Coral Reefs

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London is miles from the sea and even further from the warm, bright waters where tropical coral reefs usually belong.…

Spa Road Station: London’s First Railway Terminus Was a Cramped Bermondsey Afterthought

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London’s railway age did not begin beneath the grand iron ribs of King’s Cross, nor in the Gothic drama of…

Lincoln’s Inn Fields: London’s Largest Public Square

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At roughly 4.5 hectares (about 11 acres), it is significantly larger than Leicester Square or Trafalgar Square.

The Hackney Turks and Tottenham Turks: London’s Long-Running Turkish Gang War

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One of the most disturbing examples in modern London crime is the long-running feud between two rival Turkish/Kurdish organised-crime groups:…

The London Bank Job Inspired by Sherlock Holmes

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One of the strangest Sherlock Holmes stories ever attached to Baker Street did not come from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s…

The Homeless Man Living on the Doorstep of London’s £200 Million Empty Mansion

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It is one of the starkest images of London’s housing crisis: a man with no money sleeping outside a billionaire-owned…

Meet RastaRolla: The Penny Farthing Rider Turning Heads Across London

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If you’ve spent enough time walking the streets of London, you may have spotted one of the city’s true originals: RastaRolla,…

The Carlton Tavern: The London Pub Ordered to be Rebuilt

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The extraordinary story of the London pub that rose from the rubble.

Shomrim: The Volunteer Patrols Keeping Jewish London Safe

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Fluorescent jackets, radios, patrol cars, and men who arrive quickly when something goes wrong.

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