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Just as the redundant docklands were transformed into a modern financial area – and more – in the 1980’s, so too King’s Cross has been changed almost beyond…
In the madness that is the current rebuilding of Tottenham Court Road station as part of the Crossrail development, there is one small oasis of calm. Tucked in…
Walking along Cleveland Street in the direction of the Euston Road there is a small Georgian house at no.22, now an old-fashioned shop selling buttons, with a black…
Nightingale Lane runs from Clapham Common to Wandsworth Common and was originally a rural track that local yokels used to drive their cattle from one common land to…
In the south-west corner of Covent Garden market you can still just about see the name of one of its early inhabitants. “Jas. Butler, Herbalist and Seedsman, Lavender…
Start: Limehouse Finish: Canary Wharf Coming out of Limehouse station’s Branch Road exit there is a path down to the Limehouse Basin which is…
In 1800 there were only 10,000 people living in the self-contained village of Islington. By 1870 there were more than 200,000 and a swollen Islington was absorbed into…
….and an argument against stupid taxes. In 1696 some clever clog decided to tax windows. You had to pay an extra tax for each window in your home….
Such is the cheek by jowl nature of London that you can leave a rough and ready post-war council estate built on a bomb damaged site – Regents…
In the run up to Rememberance Sunday, King’s Cross station commemorated the fallen with a giant poppy that sat above the concourse . It was a striking gesture…