This Day in London’s History Best stay at home today. 16 October seems to be a date of doom and/or gloom for the capital. (And, incidentally, it’s also Davina MaCall’s birthday.) 1834: Disastrous fire at Westminster. What Guy Fawkes et al. had failed to do …
The Blitz may have been started entirely by accident, it was claimed yesterday. A Luftwaffe pilot may have kick-started the second Great Fire of London by dumping unused bombs on the East End instead of the English Channel. During the war, it was common practice …
Like most, we here at Londonist had fallen into the trap of assuming that folk music is about cable knit jumpers and living in a caravan. Talk of the English folk dance tradition makes us think of hankies and sticks and bells and so on. …
There’s a number dropping trend going on at the moment. 5ive have become four, and Jurassic 5 finally became, er, five this year. When Cut Chemist left the Californian hip-hop crew their fans watched closely to see if the next album would still deliver. However, …
This week we look backwards to World Trade Center, fast forward with Click and then arrive closer to home with Life & Lyrics. Let’s just get straight into it with Bradshaw’s (1/5) review of WTC: There are some films so awful, of such insidious dishonesty …
We heard on the news earlier that “thousands of people” had to be evacuated from homes in west London in the early hours of this morning. We’ve been unable to find anything online as yet but from what we heard on the radio it seems …
A Greenpeace report released today points to chemical contamination as a factor in decline of European eel population: The report, “Slipping Away: the presence of perfluorinated chemicals in eels (Anguilla anguilla) from 11 European countries”, including the UK, reveals that European eels, once common but …
A flight from L.A. to London in February of last year is back in the headlines after it was revealed that the flight went ahead despite one of the engines catching fire only seconds after take off: Air traffic controllers monitoring a British Airways jumbo …
Seems London is under attack from all sides. Not only have we had a major fire over to the east, but the we’re also knackers-deep in water over to the west. A burst water main has flooded homes and a busy road in west London, …
If you were on your way home last night thinking ‘looks a little foggy around here’ that may have been the resulty of the huge scrapyard fire which happened in Slade Green in Erith, east London yesterday. The fire was so big that it took …
A tribute to the capital’s alleys, ginnels and snickleways. 10. Took’s Court Where? Piddling little dogleg to the East of Chancery Lane. Yes, we’re back near Samuel Johnson Land again. What? Surely London’s least grimy alley. Sandblasted and scrubbed to the point that you could …
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