The government is again thinking up ways to fine us for littering the pavements. This shouldn’t really affect the majority of us who know it’s wrong to just throw our unwanted packaging on the floor as we walk along the street, but there are idiots …
With the Christmas party season upon us, the streets will be littered with vile drunken bodies and pavement pizzas. The transport network is vital at this time of year for helping us all get home safe, so here’s a photographic celebration of some transport minutiae. …
As you exit Holloway Road tube station in the evenings you will see that a lovely green and blue light effect has been installed under the railway bridge to the left. A similar effect has been created in Finsbury Park under the bridge at the …
The weather has been rubbish lately. What has happened to our Summer? July was almost a wash out. Now it’s all muggy and uncomfortable. But it looks like the sun may be finally peeping through the clouds. Bring me sunshine. Previous Urban Sightseeing posts You …
Today marks a whole two years since the smoking ban was introduced here. Despite the initial protestations and subversive acts of defiance it has become normal to ‘pop outside for a fag’. And there are some benefits related to smoking; smokers get more exercise than …
This week’s collection of Urban Sightseeing images is tenuously linked to the recent reports about our politicians’ dubious expense claims and their subsequent resignations. No further explanation is needed – the coalhole cover plate image really seems to sum up the whole thing. Party Fears …
Inspired by Boris and co’s narrow (street) escape, this latest collection of Urban Sightseeing images shows bikes in interesting locations and on signs around London. Please click each picture for further information.
23rd April is Shakespeare’s official birthday, and bizarrely also the date he died. Very strange. He shares his birthday with other great luminaries such as Roy Orbison, Shirley Temple, Lee Major and Michael Moore. It’s also the accepted date for the death of Saint George …
It has just been announced that many flights from UK airports have been cut. There are now 21 fewer destinations available and many internal flights have also been slashed or cancelled. Add this to the problem of our British Pound struggling to compete against foreign …
London Transport Museum held another Flickr Scavenger Hunt on Saturday 8th March 2009 as part of the London’s Transport in Miniature open day at the Museum Depot in Acton. For tube and train buffs there was plenty to see and do; as well as the …
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