An eight month campaign to save Barry Baldwin’s Endangered Species sculptures at Allington House, near Victoria, London has ended. They...

I have been walking around Soho for many years and thought that I must have walked every street, I didn’t realise until very recently...

Barry Baldwin’s Endangered Species Sculptures at Allington House in Victoria have been spared from imminent destruction. Now they need a...

The Electricity Showrooms in Shoreditch is now a bar but it was once part of a far-sighted Borough Council initiative. Eighty years ago...

Ed Gray, arguably the greatest living painter of London and Londoners, is set to unveil his stunning new London panorama at his biggest...

Land Securities are planning to destroy Barry Baldwin’s endangered species sculptures at Allington House near Victoria in central London....

Londoners have always prided themselves on the enormous diversity and quantity of free sights to be enjoyed in this great city. Today we...

For the first time online here are high quality images of Samuel & Nathaniel Buck's complete sequence of five views of London as...

I recently came across a book containing views of Edwardian London that I hadn't seen before on the net. Three Hundred and Fifty Views -...

"It's as black as Newgate's knocker" is an old phrase that will be familiar to many Londoners. But just how black was the knocker? Well,...

Claes Visscher's Panorama of London in 1616 is one of the finest views we have of London before the Great Fire. It is over two metres...

In 1830 the area of London formerly known as Battle Bridge acquired a new name, Kings Cross. This is a rare image of the "cross" that led...

Christie's London Sale brings together an amazing range of objects that will be of great interest to any London enthusiast. On September...

This is the handwritten Newgate Prison execution journal of the "Ordinary", or Chaplain, of Newgate, the Rev. Horace Salusbury Cotton....

This little book is unique. There is only one copy, it is handwritten, it has never been published in print or on-line. It contains a...

In the days before email, messengers provided a vital communication service. But they did far more than just deliver messages; they could...

In 1936 a Bauhaus master turned his attention to London Street Markets. László Moholy-Nagy provided 64 superb images for Mary Benedetta's...

The British Museum have just opened a new, free, exhibition "The Horse: from Arabia to Royal Ascot". The exhibition seeks to demonstrate...

In countless books, guides, apps and websites dealing with “Secret”, “Hidden” and “Curious” London it is asserted with bland confidence...

"The removal of the tides from the London Reaches is, in my opinion, the greatest single measure that can be taken for the benefit of...