Archive for June, 2009

Interesting garden display in Clapham by allyzally via the Londonist Flickrpool Feeling inspired by the Chelsea Flower Show and compelled into your back yard by this gorgeous weather? Stop bothering your borders and set your green fingered energy to work designing a garden for the …

View of the London Air Ambulance from inside the helipad offices. After taking a tour of the helipad at Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, we persuaded Captain Neil Jeffers to describe the job of piloting London’s only air ambulance. You can catch a documentary about …

By dusty sevens via the Londonist Flickrpool. Bucking the trend of recession misery, belt tightening and doom mongering is jolly hotel chain, Holiday Inn, whose parent company Intercontinental Hotels Group are stumping up a rumoured £10 million in 2012 commercial sponsorship as well as bringing …

Never mind Diversity, TfL’s underground ticket machines should be competing on Britain’s Got Talent. Thanks to a software upgrade, the cosmopolitan consoles are now conversant in 17 languages (as long as the conversation is about ticket pricing). Previously, the machines could only cope with English, …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 1st June 1845: A homing pigeon arrives in London, having set off from Namibia some 55 days earlier. Supposedly. Tuesday – 2nd June 1953: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II takes place in Westminster Abbey. Wednesday – 3rd …