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Now, time to clear one thing up once and for all. The image above is not a Banksy. Everyone, from this week’s TimeOut to whoever scrawled that speech bubble is making the same mistake. Just because it’s a black stencil, it must be Banksy. In …

…it’d probably look something like this. Not a still from the recent parallel-universe cyberman episodes of Dr Who (that was all in Cardiff, of course), but taken by Londonist from the improbably named Wardrobe Terrace.

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A quick-thinking friend of Londonist captured this bit of creative sign-doctoring in Richmond. The shop, normally called ‘Rugger’, has had an amusing horizontal added, creating a rival to FCUK in the burgeoning field of rudely named clothes outlets. (See also Belsize Fashions, and Scruttocks of …

You wait a couple of millennia for ancient remains to be recalled to life, then two instances come along at once. Only last Friday we reported on plans to move the sorry-looking Temple of Mithras back to its rightful home. And now the BBC are …

This day in London’s History 1897: The Blackwall Tunnel is officially opened. In its day, this was the longest underwater tunnel in the world. And the most expensive at nearly £1.5 million. Many buildings were demolished to make way for the tunnel including, sadly, a …

Long-time readers of Londonist will know that we’ve got a slightly unhealthy obsession with late sculptor Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. You know, the guy who gave us the TCR Tube mosaics and the statue of Newton outside the British Library. Many moons ago, we kicked off …

Good news for Iain Sinclair. The Temple of Mithras is going home. First the back-story. Lost for centuries, the Roman temple was rediscovered in the 1950s, after the Luftwaffe gave excavations a head start. Subsequent poking around uncovered some of the most important archaeological finds …

You’ll find this one all over Camden, especially around the canal area, and up towards Kentish Town. And there’s a particularly prominent example on some shutters next to Farringdon Station. Sadly, we’re clueless about the identity of Camden monkey boy or girl. So if you …

Did you know that ‘London has been the home of the largest, most extensive decorative tiling project ever undertaken in Britain’? And it’s nothing to do with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. For their openings around a century ago, over 90 Piccadilly, Bakerloo and Hampstead (Northern) platforms were …