On 10th March 2017 a small version of B&Q opened up in Holloway Road within the old Post Office building. I was immediately concerned a...

Façadism – keeping an original street-facing part of a building but removing and replacing everything behind it and then adding a new buil...

You are probably aware of the ongoing renovations in front of and around Highbury & Islington Station and the re-routing of the traffic...

The Angel Canal Festival takes place every year on the first Sunday of September around City Road Basin, Regents Canal, Islington (11am to ...

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...

Earlier this week, whilst hunting for something else in amongst my suitcases of collected bric-a-brac, I rediscovered my small collection o...

I recently asked help with any information about this little building that used to be at 18 Market Road, N7, mid-way on the north side bet...

Shocking news. On Sunday last I was leading my Art Deco Spitalfields tour and we were heading northwards up Bishopsgate. The next stop was...

A lively event in Caledonian in a closed-off section of Caledonian Rd between Copenhagen Street and Offord Road. Live music stages, stall...

Just some pleasing patterns and textures today. Quick snaps I took with my phone of some fences and garages in a little street N19. ...

KX 2009 – this is all one image, not a montage! Wandering around Kings Cross a few months ago I had a brainwave. I had just finished l...

If you are planning to come to the Caledonian Park opening ceremony of the clocktower* tomorrow, do take a short detour out of the park ba...

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...