Between 1936 and 1939, around 2,100 British people travelled to Spain to fight with the anti-fascist for the Republic volunteers in the Span...

Rotherhithe Picture Research Library, in Rotherhithe, is an educational charity, opened in 1976 as part of Sands Studios, and situated in th...

Built in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, Winchester Palace, in Bankside near the old Clink Prison, was the London residence of t...

Opened in 1989, at a cost of £1.2 million, the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre aims to provide recreational water activities for al...

There has been a market in Hoxton since 1687, and today it's still going strong. The Saturday market is a particular gem, with scores st...

London is so densely packed that often some of the wildest spaces, especially in the centre, are graveyards, and Bunhill Fields on City Road...

A little bit of a stretch of the truth in this post title, but the Mayflower in Rotherhithe is only a stone's throw from the quay where ...

The Scootercaffe, which everyone knows as Scooterworks, on Lower Marsh in Waterloo, is an accidental cafe with a considerable amount of char...

Your author is a fan of pop up bars, even if they are covered in branding. So when he was invited along for an evening of learning about gin...

The Old Royal Naval College, in Greenwich, is a fantastic site, and one of its most celebrated features is the Painted Hall. Planned as the ...

Christ Church Spitalfields, on Commercial Street close to Brick Lane and Spitalfields Market, was designed by Hawksmoor and built between 17...

Cecil Sharp House, just North of Regents Park, is the home of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. The Society formed in 1932 when the F...

You must have been asleep if you've missed the upcoming Open House London weekend. Now in its 17th year, the weekend is a 'celebrati...

Richard Wilson's Slice of Reality sculpture, beside the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, is a slice straight through a ship which was commi...

Your author hasn't covered the Whitechapel Gallery since it properly reopened in April, but he has been and it is a welcome improvement ...