The cafe is open, the visitor centre is complete, the information panels and plaques are in place and you can now climb 178 steps to the ...

Sometimes a wall need to be patched or graffiti needs to be obliterated. But the paint originally used for the wall or fence might not be ...

I was walking along Market Road, off Caledonian Rd, last week when I happened upon this sign outside Hayward Adventure Playground. The s...

Almost two years ago I wrote about the renovation of an old Charringtons pub in Swinton Street, Kings Cross, WC1, and its lovely old Toby A...

I have recently been flicking though a fab new book ticking off the contents in my head, inwardly saying "been there, seen that, ooh.....

Next time you are in the West Smithfield area please do take a little detour though the Henry VIII gate that leads to St Bartholomew's ...

Wandering around Dalston a few weeks ago I ambled down onto the canal towpath and had a peek around Kingsland Basin that used to serve Norw...

Along the Victoria Line platforms at Finsbury Park tube station there are some marvellous colourful mosaics of balloons. These are probab...

This is part of a large mosaic wall panel which features on one of my guided walks. But the walk does not take us to any of the places ...

I am saddened that The Water Poet, that marvellous drinking establishment in Folgate Street, Spitalfields, is due to close.  The immediate ...

How do people end up making the wrong decisions about apostrophes? For which they'd write apostrophe's.  It's as if they pick ...

The pics below show an old Charringtons pub today standing empty on the corner of Carnegie Street and Charlotte Terrace between Barnard Par...

This has intrigued me for years: In Tollington Way, Upper Holloway, N19, on the corner of Cornwallis Road, there was up until about te...

At the pedestrian crossing that links Islington Central Library and St Mary Magdalene church on Holloway Road there are road markings. Or s...

Across Islington, though I have seen it elsewhere too in the UK, there are metal signs created using single letters mostly arranged in an a...

This sign is opposite the end of City Road Basin and it bugs me every time I look at it because photographic devices like this are usual...

Last month I put together a collection of coal hole cover plates that I'd snapped in Primrose Hill. I mentioned that one name was the m...

Pic: January 2019 Last week I was really glad to find that my local M&S in Holloway is still open and trading despite reports last ...

Out wandering about in Primrose Hill the other week I noticed quite a few unusual names and designs on the coal hole cover plates embedd...

Wrap up warm and get over to Canary Wharf to see the fabulous light installations dotted all around the area, both outdoors and in. More...

This basically means drink a bowl or cup of mulled wine whilst cheering in the new year. It's an old pagan festival thing. My friend ...

Happy new year people ... here's to a marvellous 2019! ..................................................................................

Seasons greetings people... I am back in the room having let this slip for a while. I hope you've had /are still having, a nice Christm...

A while back I made mention of the marvellous ladies' toilet interior at The Duke Of Sussex pub near Lower Marsh (which I am pretty su...

Some people read chick-lit, others read crime thrillers. Well I read a lot of old street directories to see how our streets have changed ov...