Eric Patcham

The Lady of the Thames: A Medieval Execution

The remains of a woman, dating back some 1,200 years, uncovered on the banks of the River Thames, have revealed…

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The Millennium Bridge: London’s Wobbliest Wonder

Sleek, elegant, and deceptively simple, the Millennium Bridge is one of London’s most arresting pieces of urban design—a steel ribbon…

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Spitalfields Market: A Guide

Spitalfields is not a market. It is a séance. A street-corner time machine. A place where London’s past doesn’t so…

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Notting Hill’s Blacklash: Locals Paint Over the Pastels to Escape the Grammers

For decades, the pastel terraces of Notting Hill have been among London’s most-photographed façades—an architectural sugar rush of pinks, yellows,…

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Secrets, Satire and Satin: Inside London’s Molly Houses of the 18th Century

In the shadowy alleyways of Georgian London, behind innocuous doors and beneath dripping eaves, a revolution of wigs and waistcoats…

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Ronnie Knight: The Soho Charmer Who Danced With Darkness

Once, Ronnie Knight was the man who lit up Soho. He glided through smoke-filled nightclubs in a sharkskin suit, charm…

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Paul Raymond: The King of Soho

Walk through Soho at midnight and you can still feel it — that strange hum beneath the café chatter and…

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Are The Chinese Bugging London’s Parks?

Wiretaps Beneath the Benches It’s a fine afternoon in St James’s Park. Swans glide smugly past Cabinet interns lunching on…

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Celebrating Regent Street

By London standards, Regent Street is practically a teenager—born in the 19th century, coiffed daily, and still obsessed with appearances.…

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The Godfathers of Green Lanes: Inside the Baybasin Heroin Empire

In the fragrant swirl of grilled meats, hookah smoke, and north London bustle, Green Lanes looks, at first glance, like…

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Hatton Garden: London’s Jewellery Quarter

If you ever find yourself wandering just east of Chancery Lane, between the City’s buttoned-up solemnity and Clerkenwell’s artisan beard…

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London’s Longstanding Love Affair with Oysters

London, our ever-hungry metropolis, has always had a complicated relationship with its food—lustful one minute, disdainful the next, reinventing old…

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Liberty of London: A Very British Bazaar of Dreams

Let us begin, as all good stories should, with a man, a shipload of Japanese vases, and a gleam in…

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The Rise and Fall of the Bowers Gang of Canning Town

In the underbelly of East London, past the rising glass of the Royal Docks and the high-spec marketing promises of…

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Denmark Street: London’s Tin Pan Alley

Once a thunderclap of guitars, now a whisper between cranes—Denmark Street is a tenacious survivor in London's ever-evolving jukebox. Known…

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Highgate Wood: North London’s Ancient Forest

If you ever find yourself yearning for a patch of pre-Roman serenity while sandwiched between Waitrose and a Pilates studio,…

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Belgravia: London’s Wealthy Enclave

Few places in London exude wealth quite like Belgravia. It’s where embassies hide behind pristine white stucco facades, oligarchs send…

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The Arifs: How a South London Crime Family Rose from the Shadows

In London, power doesn’t always wear a suit. Sometimes it wears a tracksuit, drives a battered Mercedes, and keeps a…

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Boston Manor: The Forgotten Corner of West London

By all outward appearances, Boston Manor is just another slipstream suburb of West London. Blink and you might miss it—especially…

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The Tippetts: South London Gangsters

In the sprawling, smoky theatre of South London’s underworld, few names carry the whispered reverence accorded to the Tippett clan.…

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Celebrating Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove isn't just a road. It's a rebellious artery that snakes through West London, connecting the genteel façades of…

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Hampstead Pergola: London’s Forgotten Edwardian Daydream

Tucked away in the verdant folds of Hampstead Heath, lies one of London’s most spellbinding secrets: the Hampstead Hill Garden…

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Freemasons’ Hall: Covent Garden’s Art Deco Enigma

Step off the cobbled chaos of Covent Garden—where tourists lurch after gelato, jugglers perform existential crises, and musical theatre students…

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Grosvenor Square, Mayfair

Once the preserve of powdered wigs and whispered diplomacy, Grosvenor Square is now where memory, money, and manicured hedges jostle…

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Kentish Town: North London’s Lovable Contradiction

If London were a family, Kentish Town would be the scruffy but charming older sibling—the one who once protested a…

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The Camden Ripper: London’s Forgotten Serial Killer

In the early 2000s, amidst the bustling streets of Camden—more commonly associated with punk rock, vintage shops, and street food—a…

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Shells in the City: The Curious Case of Regent’s Canal’s Terrapins

If you’ve ever ambled along Regent’s Canal on a rare sunny afternoon—perhaps dodging cyclists, lapping up overpriced coffee, or pretending…

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Bartholomew Fair: London’s Raucous Medieval Spectacle

For over seven centuries, Bartholomew Fair reigned as London’s most raucous and dazzling festival, a spectacle that blurred the lines…

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Ten Paces: The Duelling Days of London

Before Instagram beefs and Twitter spats, there was a more dignified way to settle an insult in London: you got up…

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The Boundary Estate: Britain’s First Council Estate

There’s a certain kind of magic in London brick—not the slick modernity of steel and glass, but the red, rough,…

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