The main stretch of Holloway Road's Nags Head shopping area will be closed to traffic this Sunday when Islington's Christmas extrava...

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...

On the corner of Mount Row and Chandos Place, opposite where there used to be an 18th century workhouse, sits the wonderful Connaught Hotel....

Yesterday someone said they liked my my Spitalfields photo mosaic (see previous post) and asked me if I was selling prints. It had indeed c...

Old Spitalfields Marke t is now open on Saturdays from 19th November with the usual mix of stalls, similar to their Sunday market. This Satu...

There is a lot of fuss lately about how the renovation of a newsagent in Soho's Dean Street . Am I the only one who thinks this was a ba...

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

This Saturday 12th sees the first of four designer craft markets leading up to Christmas. Amelia Parker will be there along with plenty of ...

Mr Edwards tells me that the zebra crossing recently turned 60. This type of crossing is an endangered species – because there aren't a...

A new market opens at Brewer Street's NCP car park today running every week from Thursday to Saturday from 11am. On the forecourt and wi...

It's Movember again. Movember is the month for growing a moustache. Start the month clean shaven and see what you can achieve. Take part...

I recently paid another visit to Robert Opie's wonderful museum in Notting Hill . A labyrinth of rooms are jam-packed with various ephem...

The clocks go back this weekend. Summer is officially over. On the plus side, you can stay out an hour longer when you are out partying on S...

If you haven't discovered The London Column yet, then get with the programme now... because it's a gem of a site. The strapline at ...

To be honest I have been wondering, what with the sad demise of so many independent London establishments over the years, how Gaby's, on...

Last Saturday I went on one of Fox&Squirrel's walks . F&S offer 'lifestyle walks' all over London themed around fashion,...

A tribute exhibition marking the centenary of the birth of the British figurative painter Cyril Mann (1911-1980) is currently on at the Pia...

It's less than a year to the London Olympics. Nine months. Like a big noisy baby waiting to be born. At the Thames Festival last month ...

This isn't about 'my' London, but about the green belt that surrounds it. I copy and paste here from an email I received from 38...

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a do in the vaults of the RSA for an evening of food and drink and story telling as part of Grant...

It's 75 years since 1936's Battle of Cable Street. On Sunday 2nd October the occasion will be marked by events centred in and around...

LFW has wafted over my head again. It always does. Every year. When they show highlights on the news or on daytime magazine programmes I alw...

No, he's not. At least I don't think he is. Especially when he is pedalling about all over London finding things to mention on his s...

Tickets for the Paralympic Games are on sale until 26th August. There are 21 sports and the athletes who compete in them are truly amazing. ...

It really does not seem like 12 months have gone by since I went inside my old butcher shop on the Saturday of Open House 2011. W. Plumb ...