Blogs about London

I am spending Christmas and New Year in Miami, so as a change of venue, here are some pictures that I took on a walk around Little Haiti in Miami. I finish with a frozen …

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is illuminating, bizarre, moving and often laugh-out-loud funny. No wonder it has special bragging rights. It screams London in the summer. This flag ship show is …

• Libraries in stations and on public transport vehicles (Straphanger) • America’s Transit Exceptionalism: The US has pretty much given up building subways (BenjaminSchneider) • The Truth About Harry Beck: The Play, starting in September …

{|On a plaque laid into the pavement on the building side of the sculpture:} Boat, 2016, Daniel Silver, bronze, concreteThis sculpture is inspired by a Roman boat (AD 190 - 225) which is buried almost …

This is just a quick short & sweet ‘Shoes’ blog that I hadn’t initially planned to publish, as I had already given the subject matter a ‘light touch’ within the content of a recently published …

I received this brilliant email from Barry Parker with information about the Stonebridge Brook around Culvert Road and Seven Sisters Road. “As a child I lived in Greenfield Road,N 15. The area where Culvert Road …

This delightful, colourful piece of cartography, is the first map by illustrator, limerick-creator and Walthamstow resident Angry Dan. The piece is a 60cm x 60cm

Plans to rebuild and extend Waitrose in Bromley alongside the construction of 353 homes have been approved. The decision was made last night at a meeting of the borough’s Development Control Committee. Proposed development The …

Before this poster was created hardly anyone had seen the word "Fitzrovia" in print and virtually nobody would have recognised "Fitzrovia" as the name of a London neighbourhood. The origins of Fitzrovia's name begin in …

This review of a Nottingham restaurant is a break from the Picky Glutton’s usual London-based coverage. I occasionally wonder what Japanese people think of the Japanese food they encounter outside the Home Islands. There must …

Saturday 6 May 2023 marked the coronation of King Charles III, the first coronation since 1953 and so the first in the living memory of most people. It took place eight months after the death …