This Sunday 1st Dec, Noon–5.30pm, find me up at my stall on Navigator Square as part of Islington Council's  Archway Christmas Ligh...

Last week my friend Rob Smith, a fellow Footprints of London  guide, told me that an Australian lady on one his walks said she followed my ...

Last week I went to a preview of this exhibition and it's been playing on my mind ever since as to what to write here. I was initial...

St Magnus The Martyr on Lower Thames Street sits at the northern end of Old London Bridge. There are some interesting things in the church...

I have really enjoyed leading tours up to the top of this marvellous clocktower. Having spent time talking to people using the park or liv...

Oooh this is lovely. Dulwich Picture Gallery have again come up with a corker of an exhibition. Last week I went on a curators' to...

Just a couple of pics of freshly painted bicycle lane makings. I alway like the little ones sprayed onto the kerbside showing where the ro...

Earlier this year I stopped in my tracks outside 258 Pentonville Rd, when I happened upon a very unusual light well running the full width ...

Well this is intriguing... Between NYT and Safestore, September 2019 Never mind that they look to have made only one billiard here (i...

The exterior of the Queen's Head public house on Essex Road, Islington N1, has recently suffered a make-over. It now looks like a past...

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 ...