Highgate

“who could live in a house like this?” Not you. The Victorian Society, watchmen of all things 19th Century, have raised a red flag over a 20th Century pile. Witanhurst in Highgate is the second largest home in London after Buckingham Palace, boasting 25 bedrooms …

Nature-ist spends summer in the ‘magnificent seven‘ cemeteries What is it? Highgate’s West Cemetery is not where Karl Marx is. He’s in the East extension. We went to the original West Cemetery which is consecrated ground – for the professed believers – and opened in …

Image / Fin Fahey Via Annie Mole: Islington campaigners have reached a minor milestone in their attempts to get Archway station renamed Whittington. Boris Johnson has thrown his weight behind the campaign, which is seeking to end decades of Archway’s association with Suicide Bridge and …

Gido Schimanski as Cosmo Constantine, Beverley Klein as Mrs Sally Adams There’s a rash of American musical revivals in London at the moment, many of the best helmed by director Thom Southerland. This one’s sandwiched between a punchy Mack and Mabel in Catford and a …

Film fans, make like Dick Whittington and get yourselves up Highgate Hill this evening for the capital’s slickest pub quiz. You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat celebrates its fourth anniversary tonight at the Boogaloo bar on Archway Road. The multi-media fun starts at 8.30pm, but …

Want to make money while you drink? Those folk up at the Boogaloo in Highgate have come up with a clever scheme to get you spending your pennies by actually giving you some of theirs. Tonight is the launch of ‘Recession’, a club in a …

75. A Gaggle Of Ghosts: Part Five After a recent visit to the village of Highgate I’d like to share with you some of the area’s lesser known ghosts, as previous episodes of The Saturday Strangeness have covered the phantom chicken of Pond Square and …

66(6)! The Coventry Street Vampire It is a case obscure, hardly spoken of. Whilst the legend of the Highgate ‘vampire’ continues to intrigue and be discussed, something just as wicked occurred several decades before, in the West End at Coventry Street. In 1922 a giant …

Let Londonist help you celebrate one of Britain’s most cherished traditions, the Sunday Lunch. The Flask 77 Highgate West Hill, N6 6BU Nearest Tube: Highgate 020 8348 7346 11am-11pm (Monday-Saturday); 12pm-10.30pm (Sunday) Expect to Pay: Typically, £8-10 for a main course Rating: 7.5 out of …

Although the London-centric questions of tomorrow’s Ultimate London Pub Quiz are bound to be fun and jolly (after all, the first round is set by members of the Londonist team), film trivia may be more your kind of thing. So, to offer you the fullest …