holborn

Authors, poets, music and comedy at the Yorkshire Grey this Saturday.

Anti-royal wedding party to have happy ending.

A collection of pub signs goes on show in Holborn.

Sir Terry Farrell has been given the job of masterplanning the areas of Bloomsbury, Holborn, and St. Giles. Inmidtown, the unfortunately named Business Improvement District set up in 1996 that comprises the area, favoured Farrell’s idea, which yokes together the districts around Holborn Circus into …

Here’s what we’ve learned this weekend whilst you’ve been scouring London for fake blood and stick-on warts: Police struggled to deal with a Hallowe’en rave in Holborn last night. Brooke Kinsella has begun her school crusade to reduce knife crime. Labour are celebrating a by-election …

Holborn tube station has been closed and evacuated, and the area around it cordoned off, in what the Twitter rumour-mill is calling a bomb alert. This photo by @EGStaceyM shows the area largely deserted, while @mattrhodes suggests that the source of the alert is the …

Photography by Chris Osburn Londonist is just back from having a delicious, filling and inexpensive late lunch (or was that an early dinner) at the newly opened (as in today’s the first day) Banh Mi Bay in Holborn. A total surprise to us (especially considering …

Photo / Payton Chung BBC London is reporting that countdown traffic lights, popular in many US cities, will be tried out later in this month at selected zones around London. Pedestrians in Holborn, Balham, and Blackfriars will be the first to see a countdown clock …

Photo / tina.gao If today’s sunshine isn’t enough to brighten up your lunchtime already, then why not head to Lovestruck‘s Lunch Date in Lincoln’s Inn fields. All are invited – look out for a red picnic blanket, a few bottles of champagne and some glasses …

By only lines via the Londonist Flickrpool A twitstorm’s been brewing over the Evening Standard’s rather alarmist piece about the alleged “rebranding” of St Giles, Bloomsbury and Holborn as “Midtown”. As most of us realise, Midtown’s been around as property speak for the area for …