The White Cross isn’t just any riverside pub. It’s a pub where the river sometimes rises and takes over, transforming…
There is something faintly disobedient about seeing a seal in London. A seal belongs, surely, to postcard coasts and salt-bitten…
Welcome to the age-old, utterly addictive pastime of mudlarking, where ordinary folks turn into part-time treasure hunters on the riverbanks of…
On a languid bend of the River Thames, nestled somewhere between Shepperton and Weybridge, lies a place that sounds like…
Stand at Bankside today and you’ll be jostled by tourists photographing the Tate, couples queuing for the Globe, and joggers…
London is full of secrets — some grand, some grubby, and some so small you could almost miss them entirely.…
London has always had a complicated relationship with eels. These slippery, writhing creatures have fed the city’s poor, fascinated its…
It sounds like a bad urban myth — a giant lump of wet wipes stuck in the Thames so big…
The remains of a woman, dating back some 1,200 years, uncovered on the banks of the River Thames, have revealed…
Sleek, elegant, and deceptively simple, the Millennium Bridge is one of London’s most arresting pieces of urban design—a steel ribbon…
London, our ever-hungry metropolis, has always had a complicated relationship with its food—lustful one minute, disdainful the next, reinventing old…
If you stand on the banks of the Thames today, squinting past the steely grandeur of Tower Bridge and the…
There’s a giant chunk of ancient Egypt plonked in the middle of London, and most people barely give it a…
The gleaming, futuristic set of defences that stand between London and a rather soggy demise.
Hammersmith. The very name conjures up images of hammer-wielding blacksmiths pounding iron, sparks flying in the smoky haze of industry.…
The Day London Fell in Love with a Lost Visitor On Friday, 20 January 2006, Londoners were treated to one…
Thames House, a neoclassical behemoth on the north bank of the Thames, has a dual reputation: part historic architecture, part…
Temperatures in London rarely dip below zero long enough to freeze the River Thames. The river's constant flow makes it…
The Prospect of Whitby is a historic public house on the banks of the Thames at Wapping in the London…
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