Harrow

Lock up your pizzas! Aliens are on the way. And other less frivolous stuff from around town.

Looks like the M4 bus lane is a goner. Woop-di-doop. In the meantime, Britain’s most congested street is apparently in Clapham. The Archbishop of Canterbury has today made an historic visit to London’s Zoroastrian Centre in Harrow. LSBU becomes the latest institution to pop their …

Woop! Babs gets the Freedom of the City. There be trouble brewing in Harrow as the council moves ahead with plans to serve halal-only food in schools. The discovery of a rare finial on the Thames foreshore has excited the Museum of London. A dedicated …

Photo by pfig from the Londonist Flickr pool Harrow Council is proposing replacing up to 40 librarians with self-service check-out machines in an effort to cut costs. Along with other councils placed in difficult circumstances by massive government budget cuts, Harrow needs to save money …

Little-known forward Rocky Baptiste earned himself a ticket to posterity in the annals of footballing lore last month by producing what is perhaps the most unbelievable miss in the history of the sport. Playing for Harrow Borough against Waltham Abbey in a Ryman Premier Division …

Photo by buckaroo kid via the Londonist Flickrpool. Captions from last week’s PoTD: Caption Required #28

Harrow Council‘s plan to recruit 2,000 residents to report graffiti, fly-tipping, litter and noise are expected to be approved this week. The scheme is similar to ones running in Islington and Hillingdon, but while these focus on environmental concerns, Harrow’s “Neighbourhood Champions” could eventually be …

Moor Park must rank as one of the more obscure Tube stations, out in a place called ‘Hertfordshire’ on the Zone 6/7 border. Our Oyster Card had a nose bleed. Exiting to the North of this sleepy stop, we plunged into a scrap of menacing …

While Amy’s away, there’s plenty of girls with a gut full of soul grabbing the opportunity in the market to make it their own. London born Zarif is one of them, but instead of heartache after heartache, her beats are more chipper and happily designed …

106. The Spooker of Hammersmith Many phantom assailants have been mentioned in my weekly column over the last year or so, and so we come to another obscure London legend – that of the Hammersmith ‘monster’. A few decades previous to Spring-Heeled Jack leaping his …