This past few weeks I have been preparing for a guided walk that I have been encouraged to do by the lovely people at Rowan Arts . They thou...

Nicola Baird writes Islington Faces , a blog about creative people in Islington. We met when I had a stall selling my clay pipe jewellery a...

More proof that you should be looking rather than just bowling along when you pop out for that sandwich at lunchtime. These pics are from a...

The  Whitecross Street Party 2014 – Rise of the Non-conformists  is a fab fun colourful central London street festival for all ages. and ...

This huge, now redundant lifting mechanism, can be found on the bridge by the Old Salt Quay at Rotherhithe and marks the entrance from th...

I recently met some friends for a drinks and nice food in a lovely pub in Bermondsey Street . Zig-zagging back towards London Bridge I enter...

Back in August 2002 I was a Perrier judge at the Edinburgh Festival, having won the position through a written competition in Time Out. ...

Two weeks ago I met my friend at London Bridge Station so that we could find and catch a train to Margate. We thought this was the most logi...

Have you ever walked down those footpaths that cut between the sports fields off Park Road , between Ally Pally and Crouch End? I always...

There used to be a lovely little green-tiled convenience shop on the corner of Tufnell Park Road and Warrender Road, N19. The owner passed ...

Last night I spent another great evening at The Underground Cookery School . Last time I was there we made pasta and casserole; this time ...

The streets of Holloway are again blooming and more lovely pyramids of fiery nasturtiums can be found in Holloway, specifically Mayton Stre...

Here are some pictures I took whilst enjoying Art Deco In Bloomsbury (Architecture In The Machine Age)  walking tour last Saturday afternoon...

I hadn't noticed until April this year that the lamps at the foot of the front steps to this gorgeous church echo the design on the spir...

Can anyone help with this? This Eye of Horus is embedded in the pavement on Hampstead Road, near Mornington Crescent Station. Find it in...

This Sunday 1st June sees the start of my local arts festival in Holloway. Organised by Rowan Arts , it's jam-packed of things to do an...

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

A few months ago I was walking to London Bridge from  Lower Marsh  via Southwark Street. Just south of Tate Modern , at the junction of H...

We are awash with branded coffee shops offering all sorts of different types from skinny latte decaf to double espresso. Yet the staff in th...

This show, taking place over two days within the West Hall at Olympia , will be packed full of cultural, archaeology, heritage and historica...

Whoosh! Another year has whizzed past and it's  Punch's  birthday again. As per last year , the celebrations take place in S...

How on earth had I never seen this before? Because, dear reader, I don't tend to use this part of Pimlico Road preferring, when head...

Back in the 1930's almost every decent high street in the UK had a branch of Burton selling menswear. So popular were they that it'...

A great event takes place this Bank Holiday weekend in and around the canal junction of Little Venice. From Saturday 3rd until Monday 5th M...

Beneath the Living and Dying exhibits, in Room 24 at the back of the British Museum 's courtyard, are two flights of stairs that lead do...