Crossrail Connaught Tunnel Checked For Bombs
Contractors making sure a bomb hit in 1940 didn’t leave any nasty surprises.
Contractors making sure a bomb hit in 1940 didn’t leave any nasty surprises.
Theatreland comes to Docklands for a free showcase
An amazing free outdoor arts festival round SE10 and E14
London’s watery orient, beautifully mapped.
So London’s Docklands are dull and sterile, eh? Not in these photos.
Tuesday’s other news, including trouble for the new Routemaster and a threat to London’s firefighters.
The charity Practical Action has hit upon an interesting way of demonstrating how a rise in ocean levels would impact on London: they’ve created an alternative Tube map which shows the areas of the capital that would be flooded.
These two books by Fiona Rule offer an engrossing insight into London life, taking specific entry points and spinning magnificent stories around them. Dorset Street in Spitalfields was originally laid out in 1674 and saw a period of gentility, but by the Victorian age it …
Photography by Mitra Nataraj Rejected by the Wapping Project for their strict reservation-only-on-a-weekend policy, we decided to check out one of the more welcoming restaurants in the area. A short walk away and true to its name, we found Riverview, known among those in the …
If you’re looking for somewhere to take advantage of the sunshine, then you could do worse than heading to The Gun, one of the further-flung outposts of Ed and Tom Martin’s gastronomic empire down in Docklands. Londonist was invited along to their seasonal reopening last …
Shad Thames by RobC’ham A friend of ours has an iPhone app which locates him by GPS then populates a Google Map with layers of local activities: restaurant reviews, what’s on listings, even the just-had-a-biscuit updates of tweeters in the area. Chris McCabe takes a …