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The Bengalis of London's Brick Lane
The next time you enjoy London’s beloved Indian curry in Brick Lane, it is most likely that you’re eating it at a Bangladeshi restaurant....
Coal turns to fashion retail at King's Cross
The Victorian, Grade-II coal yard is going to be converted into a Regent's Canal-side shopping destination The retail destination of Coal...
Survivors of The Great Fire still stand
The Hoop & Grapes is still open on Aldgate High Street in Whitechapel (right picture: Lisa Nordbo Fiil, left picture: Collage) Most of...
Holloway: The North London prison that housed the suffragettes
Opened for almost two centuries, Holloway Prison was once the biggest women’s jail in Europe and it housed symbolic members of the...
Covent Garden continues to change as London evolves
Located in London's West End, the history and evolution of Covent Garden has been as alive and steady as the city of London itself. It...
Temple Bar twice painstakingly preserved
Above left, visitors pass through Temple Bar in its current location at Paternoster Square in February, 2017. Right, the Temple Bar gate...
From Highbury to high-end flats
As Arsenal clash with Liverpool at Anfield in a crucial Premier League match today, we wander around North London to look at the...
News, not fake: Fleet Street's real connection to London media
Fleet Street in 2017, (left, Ashley Winchester) and in its heyday in 1890 (right, Collage - The London Picture Archive). Fleet street,...
The secret life of subterranean shelters
Londoners trying to get comfortable in one of the city's underground stations (Wikimedia Commons) Today marks the first day of...
The Gherkin and St. Andrew Undershaft: A tale of two buildings
Next to the Elizabeth Tower (often incorrectly referred to as Big Ben which, in fact, is the name of the bell within the tower) and the...
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