Jen had been on about doing this for months. We finally agreed a date and met at Rotherhithe station on Sunday 14th September – a Sunday be...

On Saturday 23rd August I needed to go to the  Old Royal Naval College  to supplement  my stock  at the shop and, because I'd arrange th...

You'd have probably thought I'd be banging on about this being Open House weekend, but I'd booked up for the  Classic Car Boot S...

Following on from a post earlier this year about Surrey Docks , here are some more of my photos taken along the riverside near Rotherhithe a...

I recently went to check out the Veno's Lightning Cough Cure ghostsign that has been revealed due to some renovations on the triangular ...

Lat month I went to East Finchley allotments. Let's keep this short.... It's bloody lovely up there. We dug up things, we pic...

This Sunday come and find me at my stall on Danbury Road bridge at the  Angel Canal Festival . The event takes place around the the local st...

It has recently been reported in the Islington Gazette that the area behind Finsbury Park Station, between Fonthill Road and Wells Terrace i...

Sutton House , Homerton, is North London's oldest residential house. Built in 1535 by a rich courtier of Henry VIII, it's now owned ...

I was just about to put a collection of pics together about this past weekend's walk from Greenwich to Wapping when it occurred to me th...

Hard to believe it's August at the moment. It's cold and wet and windy out there. So I have put together some sunny-coloured things...

I had a kaleidoscope when I was young. I loved the patterns it made. I also liked colouring in graph paper to make intricate patten repeats....

I have been snapping marks made in wet cement or tarmac for years now and have collected a few of them together here. Some are accidental i...

I have been taking photos of shops signs and frontages for many years now. I am drawn to old hanging signs, hand-painted lettering, curve...

Continuing on from my recent post about the emporiums of Tottenham Court Road , there is another building also covered in amazing reliefs...

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 ...