Archive for September, 2006

September 29th, 1829 Scotland Yard was founded along with the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel. Legislation introduced by Peel reorganized the London police force and policemen were affectionately nicknamed ‘Bobbies’ and ‘Peelers’ after him. Originally, there were only 1,000 constables employed. Although at first …

If you’re not sure how to get a piece of paper to stick to a wall then this is the video for you: We got a bit lost once the spray can came out as we missed the induction video on how to use one, …

The government is being sued by one of the survivors of the 7/7 bombings as she has been refused medical treatment on the NHS: Beverli Rhodes, from Maidstone in Kent, was a passenger on the King’s Cross train, and says she has been forced to …

We just stumbled across this post on Cool Hunting Dot Com and almost dropped our collective wine glass when we saw what looked like two people paddling a table up the Thames. The things people do for art: their new work, entitled “Climatised Objects,” are …

Here at Londonist we’re a sucker for a damsel in distress, and so it is that we commend to you, dear reader, the plight of one Jennifer Nobis (that’s not her in the picture, incidentally – that’s somebody called Hess – you’ll see later what …

We get so many great photos added to the Londonist Flickr Pool that we decided it was time to show them off a little more. From Monday we’ll be posting one great photo from the pool every day*. Today we chose mcmost1‘s 13 Years Without …

This week we look backwards to World Trade Center, fast forward with Click and then arrive closer to home with Life & Lyrics. Let’s just get straight into it with Bradshaw’s (1/5) review of WTC: There are some films so awful, of such insidious dishonesty …

Murder, mystery, suspense in Victorian London? Hasn’t that been done before somewhere? Well, yes, but perhaps never as entertainingly as in this debut novel. Must resist urge to quote opening line. Must resist urge. Must…oh, darn it. ‘After killing the red-haired man, I took myself …

We haven’t made our mind up about so called ‘book trailers’ yet. We think it’s potentially a great idea but so far a lot of examples we’ve seen have been terribly executed. Note to marketers: books are not pop songs and should not be promoted …

We heard on the news earlier that “thousands of people” had to be evacuated from homes in west London in the early hours of this morning. We’ve been unable to find anything online as yet but from what we heard on the radio it seems …