The weekly car boot sale held at Battersea Technology College is one of only a few proper car boot sales in central London. It’s held every...

Harrods food halls are as famous as the rest of the store for the depth and breadth of their offerings. You can get almost anything in the w...

Great news! On Fridays until March, the Royal Festival Hall will be running weekly free concerts at lunchtime, in case you feel like getting...

As you get further out towards the M25, whilst you are still technically in London boroughs, it feels much less like London. The Bull's ...

The London School of Scuba, in West London, is a PADI Scuba Diving centre, with on-site facilities to allow you to experience diving without...

Connaught Water, in Epping Forest, is an ornamental lake which was constructed in 1883, and enlarged in 1893. Originally the site of a marsh...

Two Scottish articles in two days, but it is Burns Night. And the London Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, celebrates its ...

Your author loves a freebie, and when he was treated to a very pleasant pre-Burns-night celebration by Talisker Whisky, one of Diageo's ...

The Elfin Oak, in Kensington Gardens, is a 900-year-old tree stump covered in carvings, and painted to look like elves, gnomes and small ani...

Volleyball England have been on to tell your author about a series of free winter events being run by Richmond Volleyball Club, the UK Spor...

Often regarded as one of London's few gems of art deco architecture, black granite-clad Ideal House is an office block on the corner of ...

London is a great city to see by bike and your author takes great pleasure from touring it with a book at his own speed without having to wa...

Saint Jude-on-the-Hill is the Parish Church of Hampstead Garden Suburb, and was designed by Edwin Lutyens, widely recognised as one of the g...

Cleopatra's Needle, on the Embankment, was presented to the nation in 1819 by Egyptian ruler Sudan Muhammad Ali, in commemoration of the...

Standing beside the Ministry of Defence Main Building on Whitehall is a statue of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgom...