This Week In London’s History Monday – 26th November 1983: An armed robbery at the Brinks Mat warehouse near Heathrow Airport becomes the largest heist in British history, as £25 million worth of gold bullion is pinched. Tuesday – 27th November 2000: 10-year-old schoolboy Damilola Taylor is stabbed in the leg and dies in Peckham, south London. The following six years would see several trials and re-trials over the killing, finally culminating in the......

This week, we're in Holborn Circus. That masterclass in spatial economy, which packs the junction of six major roads into an area the size of a portacabin. We like to think of it as the neutron star of road infrastructure. And you can quote us on that. The shots here are from around 1920 and 2003. Certain similarities remain, like the fairytale pinnacles of the Prudential Insurance building in the distance, the location of......

Londonist has been following the mystery of the strange red line ever since it appeared on the capital's pavements; and last week we updated you on the second instalment of the line's development and asked you for your help in unravelling its meaning. And you did! Andrea (of Velorution fame) was the first to point out that the line seems to mark the boundaries of the WC1 postcode while commenter Elly was good enough to......

The mystery red line is back. And this time it's tricksier than ever. The new piece of minimalist pavement art picks up where it left off, opposite the Novotel on Euston Road. (Camden Council must be apoplectic, after doing their best to erase the earlier marking.) We followed it along Pentonville Road for quite some way until it took a sharp right down Amwell Street into Finsbury. From there, it runs into Roseberry Avenue......