Next time you are shopping in Holloway, look out for a series of hand-painted artworks between Boots and Lidl. I think I first spotted them ...

I have this morning added some updates to these old posts – click the links above the pics to read the articles and see the pics at larger s...

Have you ever noticed that the brickwork either side of the entrance to 20 Rugby Street, WC1N 3QZ* is slathered in gouges and grooves at app...

Horseguards Parade ground links Whitehall to St James's Park. I love marching across the open space  listening to the scrunch scrunch sc...

The building that is home to the National Youth Theatre , 443-5 Holloway Rd, N7, was originally built as Holloway Hall in 1865 and used for...

A couple of years ago I took my friend Jen, to Whittington Park to show her an old mural that had become obscured by plants. Read about that...

A section of Caledonian Road will be closed to traffic this Sunday for the yearly street festival which takes place between noon and 6pm. ...

I have for many years been keeping my eye on the old garages at the corner of Swain's Lane on Highgate West Hill. It always pleased me ...

Cement impression graffiti. Not sure is this is Eden's age or the year 2014. More of these here .

An interesting guided walk following on from my visit to Boston Manor House , starting near the GlaxoSmithKline building and ending in Brent...

Whittington Park near Upper Holloway Station is just a short walk from my house. I often go there to sit, meet friends, relax, attend events...

Another ghost sign demise. An old faded hand-painted HOVIS advertisement sits above The Old Dairy public house at the end of Hanley Road i...

For decades I have been watching the decline of a lovely old villa in Hawley Road at the junction of Kentish Town Road, opposite Quinn's...

A few weeks ago I finally found time to visit this once thriving area of London docklands. We met at East India station and walked down...

This is the last of three posts about Lower Marsh. It must be that if you have a can of aerosol paint in your hand you will be compelled t...

This is the continuation of a post I wrote earlier this month about the changes to Lower Marsh, a market street situated just behind Waterlo...

Continuing on from my post the other week , this one is not about nature so much as the colourful graffiti, mainly to be found in the stretc...

Four years ago I was walking along Dalston Lane and I turned to see a fresh mural depicting six white female stick figures, with one carryin...

A friend told me about Smoke magazine a few years back and I quickly signed up for a subscription. Full of short obscure London-inspired sto...

Oh gawd, today is that consumer-fest that is Valentine's day. It used to be a day for letting someone know that you fancied them. But no...