Not often your author reproduces a press release directly, but one popped in last week which is vaguely interesting, and worth sharing. It a...

Today, in West London, we have reached the main day of Carnival. Held each August Bank Holiday since 1966, it is the largest carnival in Eur...

The Brunel Museum is located in an old Engine House in Rotherhithe, which was once part of the famous tunnel of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, an...

It's carnival weekend, and the first major event of the weekend is the National Panorama Competition, an annual competition of the UK’s ...

Established in 2008 by a former BBC bod, Teapod is a contemporary tea house on Shad Thames, near Tower Bridge in South London. Your author i...

Cycling along the Regents Canal this summer, your author has been pleased to note that at one of the trendier points, someone has opened a s...

Your author doesn't usually recommend Nicholson's Pubs, as they are often of dubious quality, but the Coal Hole, on the Strand, is c...

Opened in 1908, the Japanese Garden in Peckham Rye Park. It was built around an old pond and now features a series of stream fed ponds, with...

For National Afternoon Tea Week last week, your author had a very pleasant Afternoon Tea at the Gallery Restaurant, at Fortnum and Mason on ...

A small museum beside the Terraces on which the Crystal Palace once stood in Sydenham tells the story of the Crystal Palace in both Hyde Par...

We all know about the various memorials to humans who took part in the wars and conflicts of the 20th century, but there is also a memorial ...

Today, Friday 20 August, marks the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in Whitehall, with a special Battle of Brit...

St Giles-in-the-Fields is another often-missed parish church in the heart of the West End. Built in 1734, the current church replaced a numb...

A grade II listed building in the heart of Battersea Park, the Pump House was built in 1861 to supply water to the lakes of Battersea Park. ...

Top art book publisher Phaidon was founded in Vienna in 1923, aiming to deliver quality books at affordable prices. Phaidon was forced to mo...