Quirky London

Hampstead Heath Seeks Volunteer Shepherds as Sheep Return to the Heath

A small flock of five sheep is returning to Hampstead Heath from 29 May to 8 June, and volunteers are being…

6 days 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…

2 weeks ago

New Banksy appears on Pall Mall

A new Banksy appeared in Central London yesterday (Wednesday April 29th). This time its not graffiti but a sculpture standing…

3 weeks ago

North Korea’s London Embassy: Pyongyang by the North Circular

London’s embassies usually behave as you expect them to. They cluster in the expensive bits, drape themselves in flags, and…

3 weeks 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…

4 weeks 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…

1 month 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…

1 month 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…

1 month ago

The Harrods Zoo

For nearly two decades in the early 20th century, Harrods Pet Department sold the most exotic animals you could imagine.

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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