A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways 23. Exchange Court Where? A sibling to Bull Inn Court, running down ancient sloped from Maiden Lane to Strand. What? To avoid the cliché of calling this lane ‘Dickensian’, we’d like to proclaim it a passage …
If you missed the Five screening of this documentary last year you can now watch the full thing via Google video: Here’s the accompanying website. Don’t have nightmares.
Ok, we’ve had a good cry in the corner and kicked as many shins as possible over this, but time now to take a deep breath and finally get over not being nominated for a Bloggie this year. Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Iain Sinclair and …
Windows Vista was launched in the UK today and Bill Gates was on hand to put the operating system through its paces at the British Library Full press release here, but this was the part that caught our eye: Bill Gates and Lynne Brindley, Chief …
This untitled photo by bhaggs leapt out at us from the contribute stream this morning and you can see why. We’re so used to kids and Americans struggling to mount those lions that it’s a pleasant surprise to see a pair of red clad sirens …
The South Bank Centre needs a revamp. Its purple and turquoise night garb is OK, but by daylight it’s still an eyesore. What better solution than to turn it into our very own Mount Rushmore? The countenances of Blake, Dickens, Wren and a half-complete Livingstone, …
The oddest story we’ve stumbled across in a while: The body of a baby has lain in a mortuary for 20 years because his parents refuse to accept the official cause of death. A pathologist told the parents of Christopher Blum that he died of …
Here’s a neat idea that we’d like to see take off: tubePing. tubePing.com is the only website online whose SOLE purpose is to assist London’s tube and rail community contact that certain somebody that they may have seen whilst on their journey. With 976 million …
We like column by simonrigglesworth because it captures Nelson in a new way. And is it just us or does that Underground sign look a lot like the flying thingamajigs in Tron?
Lots of international papers are picking up the story of a body found in the landing gear of a BA flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles: A pilot discovered the body of the young man in the front right wheel well of the 747-400 during …
Just a quickie to let you know that the winner of Lucky Soul‘s new EP ‘Ain’t Never Been Cool’ plus a photo print out of the sleeve shot signed by the band was Jenny Meyer. Congratulations to her. If you haven’t heard the lead track …
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