I do love a good procession or parade. And this one promises a "gigantic metal animation" . I stupidly missed that big elephant ...

Each year the tidal Thames is allowed to rise and fall naturally between Richmond and Teddington locks, so that the Port of London Authority...

One early evening last September I was walking across the western Golden Jubilee Bridge and it started to rain. A short sharp heavy downfal...

Here are some lovely colourful images of the railway bridges and viaducts at the front and side of Waterloo Station. © Jane Amelia Parke...

J ust like the Golden Jubliee Bridges , the Millennium Bridge's handrails are the only clean bits to be found along the structure as peo...

If you are planning to go to the Southbank or come to the market in Embankment Gardens this weekend (see my last post below) you may need to...

 Faces in Clerkenwell Road   George at St George's, Bloomsbury Screens on Battersea Bridge Three nice things  – a serie...

Yesterday, a day with the best weather since October, I met up with a few friends for another of my Amelia Parker foreshore forages and thi...

Whilst doing a stall at Old Spitalfields Market a couple of months back a man stopped to chat about my wares and we stood for ages chatting ...

The King's Road is so named because it was Charles II's private road between his palaces in London and Kew. Subsequently large expen...

I made a good decision before I went to bed last night. I looked at the weather forecast and decided that a day in at home would be a really...

There are lots of book about London. You'd think there couldn't be any more to write but every now and then someone comes up with a ...

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

Ooh this should rile a few people... but here goes... The latest plans for the shell of what used to be this wonderful building is to conv...

A few days ago I was lucky enough to travel on a widebeam cruiser along the Thames from Limehouse to Kingston . It's as near as I have ...

I was a bit late finding Luther . I watched the first two episodes back-to-back on iPlayer and was hooked. Idris Elba, in the title role, is...

There have been some beautiful sunsets of late; Monet skies, Turner clouds, mundane buildings looking all lovely, reflected in pink and gold...

Happy birthday to Londonist – 5 years old! I have just loaded up another post onto the site about railway bridges – please don't forget...

On a gloriously sunny Saturday a few weeks ago, I decided to go for a wander around Battersea. As I walked across Chelsea Bridge I was conf...