This is the third part of my wandering up and down the streets between the BM and Bloomsbury Way, following on from my posts about what I th...

Last January, whilst cutting through from Kings Rd to Fulham Rd, I stopped in my tracks when I spotted a boot scraper protruding out of a ga...

I've been wandering around and properly investigating the St. James's area a lot these past few years, yet until earlier this week I...

On Wednesday last, after leading a lovely group of London Historians on a meandering route through Fitzrovia looking at 1920s-30s buildings...

Spotted opposite The Natural History Museum, four doorways in a row all with stumps rather than full boot scrapers . Culled for the war eff...

Today is Black Friday , so named because as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving in the States it marks the start of the Christmas shop...

There are some great views across this fair city from high points such as Crystal Palace, Ally Pally and Richmond Park. Plus some fantasti...

Last year I reported that I'd had a fabulous evening at one of the Black Cat Cabaret evenings at The Café de Paris on Leicester Square....

One of my favourite squares in London is Bedford Square, Bloomsbury. I must admit I prefered it when the road actually ran around the circul...

Lamb's Conduit Street, for those of you who do not know, is situated in Bloomsbury between Holborn and Coram Fields. It continues north ...

I was just thinking the other day that I haven't seen any 'new' bootscrapers for a while; just the same designs repeated over an...

The wonderful William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow is closed whilst renovations and refurbishment take place. However, a lot of the exhibi...

Many places in London have the name well in their name. Most are so named because there was indeed a well there in times past. Some have cha...

Ooh... I should have noticed this earlier... The British Film Institute is putting on a retrospective of one of my favourite film actors. N...

It's been drawn to my attention that there were a load of semi-naked women in Trafalgar Square last week taking part in an attempt to br...

As this goes live I will be seeing my dentist. He'll be drilling and packing my dodgy molar. But once done, joy of joys, I will be able ...

The home where Charles Dickens wrote The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby and Oliver Twist is getting £2 million from the National Lotte...

It's a strange title but this is a film about two people who paths cross when they are both hunting for their missing (adult) children i...

As part of the Year of the Tiger, and to raise awareness of the plight of tigers in the wild, WWF UK is working with Mark Coreth who is, a...

Taking place in Bedford Square this Saturday is the 6th Chap Olympiad . So curl your hair or wax your moustache, dress up in something dappe...