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.
Quirky London
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 joke, architectural puzzle box and museum.
New Banksy appears on Pall Mall
A new Banksy has appeared in Central London.
This time its not graffiti but a sculpture
North Korea’s London Embassy: Pyongyang by the North Circular
The strange story of Kim Jong Un’s London suburban house.
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
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 the outdoor seating area into a temporary lagoon.
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 1950, it tried to manufacture both.
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
The Harrods Zoo
For nearly two decades in the early 20th century, Harrods Pet Department sold the most exotic animals you could imagine.
Hackney Council Swaps Tractors for Horses
Hackney Council is trying something in Springfield Park that looks, at first glance, faintly surreal: heavy horses working the land
Croydon’s Cameo: How a South London Shopping Mall Became the Star of a Taylor Swift Video
Croydon’s Whitgift Centre — a cavernous 1970s shopping mall that feels as architecturally unresolved as its future — now flickers
The Camberwell Carrot: South London’s Most Elaborate Fiction
Some neighbourhoods give the world cathedrals. Some give it revolutions. Camberwell gave it a very large spliff. The “Camberwell Carrot”
Postman’s Park: London’s Secret Memorial to Everyday Heroes
Walk long enough through the City of London and you’ll find it: a small, sun-dappled square behind St Botolph’s Aldersgate,
The Thin House of Thurloe Square
Stand at the wrong angle on Thurloe Square and you’ll miss it entirely. Blink and it disappears, slipping into the
The False Wolf Spider: London’s Most Misunderstood Flatmate
London is a city that prides itself on tolerance. We welcome foxes into Zone 2 gardens, parakeets onto suburban bird
The Soviet Tank That Defied Southwark Council: The Strange, Glorious Life of “Stompie”
On a quiet patch of land off the Old Kent Road once stood a Soviet tank—yes, an actual tank—graffitied in
The Coolest Launderette in London
A laundrette with soul Hidden among the sculptural concrete of the Barbican Estate hums a survivor from another age —
The Farm House, Mayfair’s Gothic Oddity
In Mayfair, that district of polished limestone and quiet money, there stands a building that refuses to behave. At 22
Too Much London: The Real Film Locations Behind Lena Dunham’s Netflix Drama
London doesn’t just set the stage for Too Much — it steals scenes.In Lena Dunham and Luis Felber’s Netflix drama, the city
Pharaoh’s Island: The Thames’ Most Curious Kingdom
On a languid bend of the River Thames, nestled somewhere between Shepperton and Weybridge, lies a place that sounds like
The Day a London Bus Jumped Tower Bridge
London has seen its share of moments but few events combine slapstick comedy and genuine peril quite like the morning of 30 December 1952, when a red double-decker bus — Route 78 to Dulwich — made an unplanned and entirely unsanctioned leap across Tower Bridge.
London’s Wild Parakeets: Debunking Myths and Uncovering Their True Origins
London’s skyline, once dominated by pigeons and starlings, has been brightened in recent decades by flashes of emerald green and
Hollywood in Pinner
There is a slice of glamorous old Hollywood in the West London suburbia of Pinner. Simon Pollock from I Love Suburbia, tells us more.
Neasden Temple: A Stunning Dream Next to the North Circular
Tucked between the A406 and a retail park, surrounded by the soothing white noise of perpetual traffic, rises something utterly
Leake Street Tunnel: London’s Legal Graffiti Playground Beneath the Tracks
Hidden in the belly of London, just behind the polished façade of Waterloo Station, there’s a place where the city
Lions, Bears, and Penny Dreadfuls: The Forgotten Spectacle of Shoreditch’s East London Aquarium
Before craft beer and beard oil took over Shoreditch, before the avocadoisation of the East End, there stood—believe it or
The Pagodas of London: A Tale of Two Towers
London, a city forever caught between history and reinvention, has many unlikely landmarks. Cheesegraters that scrape the sky. A gherkin
Hoxton Street Monster Supplies: London’s Most Peculiar & Delightful Shop
Tucked away in East London, among the hipster coffee shops and art studios, lies a shop that defies logic, reason,
Alfies Antique Market: A Time-Travel Treasure Trove
In a city that sometimes seems hell-bent on demolishing the old to make way for the identikit new, Alfies Antique Market
The Knowledge: Why London’s Black Cab Drivers Have Bigger Brains Than You
Picture this: you’re in a London black cab, running late, and muttering apologies to the universe. The driver, a middle-aged