Author: TheLondoniPage 5 of 28
I was venturing to North London – Tufnell Park to be precise – to watch the rugby in a pub with friends, anyway. But then my Songkick App…
King’s Cross has really gone up in the world. The station itself has been wonderfully re-invented, St Pancras, too, as it has taken over as the terminal for…
I had an hour to spare before catching a train from King’s Cross and headed north past St Pancras Station in the direction of the Regent’s Canal I…
I’m reading C J Sansom’s latest book Tombland, a murder-mystery set in 1549 and starring the lawyer Matthew Shardlake as medieval sleuth. It’s a time of change. The…
I love it when fictional London collides with a factual version of the city. After visiting Staples Inn a few month’s ago,I recently found this passage in The…
How have I managed to live in London for 32 years and only been to Victoria Park once before?That was in September 2000 to watch a Radiohead concert…
The late afternoon light transformed the Thames and its neighbours. There are shades of Monet’s paintings of London at the turn of the twentieth century, with mist in…
I went for a wander through old Chelsea yesterday, poking my nose into various nooks and crannies, taking photos and trying to imagine what Chelsea must have been…
What to do with a couple of friends who are down in London from the North and so hungover that they can’t face the thought of a beer?…
Oh I do love a good almshouse and I am always pleased to take a detour to have a poke around one of them. I’m not exactly sure…