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Fresh fish, storied history at Billingsgate seafood market
If you’re eating fish in London, chances are it came from Billingsgate Market. The seafood supplier handles 250 tonnes of it a week and...
Retired fireman recalls surprising impressions of old Southwark, 1970s London
The headquarters of the London Fire Brigade were once located in Southwark Bridge Road. (Photo credit: Courtesy Dave Pike, left, and...
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...
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...
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,...
Molly houses, the gay clubs of 18th century's London
Left, Shoe Lane today (Lisa Nordbo Fiil) and illustration of Field Lane in 1830, which used to be located here (Wilson, J.T., from the...
Stars descend on iconic Royal Albert Hall for BAFTAs
The stars descend on the iconic Royal Albert Hall as the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) holds its 70th edition to...
London in a whole new light--in sepia.
Join us as we take you through London's iconic places then and now in photographs. We'll also take you on an adventure of the city's...
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