Eric Patcham

Eric has lived in London for over 20 years.

Meet RastaRolla: The Penny Farthing Rider Turning Heads Across London

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

3 days ago

The Carlton Tavern: The London Pub Ordered to be Rebuilt

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

5 days ago

Hampstead Heath Seeks Volunteer Shepherds as Sheep Return to the Heath

A small flock of sheep is returning to Hampstead Heath and volunteers are being sought to help look after them.

4 weeks ago

Gypsy Hill: The Queen of London’s Underworld

In that murky half-light between fact and legend stands one of the most vivid figures of the old London underworld:…

4 weeks ago

London’s Ghost Stations: The Secret Platforms Beneath Your Commute

Threading quietly through clay and darkness, sits a parallel version of the Underground: a network of stations that no longer…

4 weeks ago

London’s Cosmic House

London’s Cosmic House is one of the strangest, cleverest private houses in the city: a Holland Park villa turned postmodern manifesto, cosmic…

1 month ago

Little Tehran: The Persian Heart of North London

London is full of unofficial capitals. Southall has long been called Little India. Golders Green has its Jewish bakeries, delis…

1 month ago

London’s Varied Wildlife

London’s wildlife is a reminder that even in one of the world’s most densely populated cities, nature has a way…

1 month ago

New Banksy appears on Pall Mall

A new Banksy has appeared in Central London. This time its not graffiti but a sculpture

1 month ago

Shepherd Market: Mayfair’s Beautiful Secret

Tucked behind the polished theatre of Piccadilly and a short, knowing stroll from Green Park, Shepherd Market sits like a secret that never…

2 months ago

Things to Do in Islington: A Smart Guide to North London’s Quiet Show-Off

Islington doesn’t advertise itself loudly. It just gets on with being one of London’s most liveable, walkable, quietly self-assured neighbourhoods.

2 months ago

Is Canning Town Worth Visiting? A Guide to One of East London’s Most Changed Corners

Canning Town has never really traded on charm. It is not one of those parts of London that arrives gift-wrapped…

2 months ago

The London Tree Slowly Eating a Postbox

London does eccentricity well, but sometimes the city doesn’t even need to try. In Chelsea, on the corner of Drayton…

2 months ago

The Grenadier: Belgravia’s Hidden Pub

There are pubs you stumble into, and pubs you have to find. The Grenadier belongs firmly to the latter

2 months ago

Walthamstow Market Guide: London’s Longest Street Market

Walthamstow Market is one of those places that makes central London feel oddly over-rehearsed. It is louder, messier, more practical…

2 months ago

The London Pub That Floods

The White Cross isn’t just any riverside pub. It’s a pub where the river sometimes rises and takes over, transforming…

2 months ago

When Hampstead Heath Held a Ski Jumping Competition

London has many things—domes, towers, hidden rivers—but it does not have mountains. Or a ski jump. And yet, in March…

2 months ago

Shakespeare’s Lost London Home—Found at Last

For centuries, William Shakespeare drifted through London like a well-documented ghost. We knew the theatres. We knew the patrons. We knew the…

2 months ago

Things to Do in Walthamstow: A Guide to East London’s Restless Edge

Walthamstow doesn’t present a single version of itself. It flickers between market-town noise and marshland silence, between neon scripture and…

2 months ago

Tulse Hill: London’s Quiet Enigma

Five miles south of Charing Cross, where London’s noise begins to loosen its tie, lies Tulse Hill — a pocket of the…

2 months ago

Is Wembley a Nice Place to Live? A Local Guide

Wembley is not subtle. It announces itself with arches, crowds, and the low hum of something about to happen. Even…

2 months ago

Gerry’s Pompeii: London’s Secret Cement Garden

London has a habit of hiding its strangest stories in plain sight. Not behind ticket barriers or museum glass, but…

2 months ago

Is Deptford a Nice Place to Live? A Local Guide

Deptford doesn’t ease you in. It’s not polite about itself. It doesn’t soften the edges. It’s loud in places, quiet…

2 months ago

How did Gospel Oak get it’s name?

Gospel Oak sounds like the sort of place that ought to come with a carved sign and a moral attached.…

2 months ago

Little Venice London: A Complete Guide to Canals, Walks, and Things to Do

What is Little Venice? Little Venice is a picturesque canal-side area in west London, centred around Browning’s Pool—where the Regent’s Canal meets…

2 months ago

Denmark Hill: A Quick Guide

Denmark Hill is, first of all, a real hill. Not a melodramatic one, not some alpine diva with snow and goats,…

2 months ago

Dulwich London: Things to Do, History, Schools & What It’s Like to Live There (2026 Guide)

Dulwich is South London, but quieter. Streets that seem to have agreed on a tone and kept to it. You…

2 months ago

The Mole Man of Hackney

William Lyttle, better known as the “Mole Man of Hackney,” spent decades creating an extraordinary labyrinth of tunnels beneath his…

2 months ago

The Last Routemaster Bus Still in Service

There are few sights in London that can still stop you mid-stride. A AEC Routemaster is one of them. The T15 is…

2 months ago

Knights Templar: London Landmarks

London is a treasure trove of Knights Templar locations. From the solemn splendour of Temple Church to the dark histories…

2 months ago

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