London Bridge

The theatre collective Shunt have finished with their show Tropicana, which was performed five nights a week from September last year in the cavernous labyrinth under London Bridge, scaring, baffling and amazing audiences who dared go through the “Staff Only” door in the station foyer. …

Not permanently though, just for a week, while “specialist work” is carried out. It is 100 years old after all, and while that’s not quite as ancient as, say, some parts of the District Line, it’s still pretty old. The BBC reports that the bridge …

Speaking, as we were, of billboards and advertising*, we’d be interested to hear what Londonist readers think of the Dove ads that seem to be up everywhere at the moment. On one building near London Bridge they share space with an ad for the Lib …

A while back we mentioned what was going on with the other London Bridge and in a similar vein we also like keep an eye on developments in Londons that find themselves flung far away from this, their namesake. New London, Connecticut, caught our attention …

London Bridge is in such a sorry state that double decker buses no longer operate over it and tourists are now being wooed by the Dixie Belle riverboat tour and a nearby Hawaiian gift shop instead. Mike Dagon, a local real estate agent had this …

OK, we know the bus routes are dangerous, so what’s a viable alternative? Well, last time we checked, incidences of piracy on the Thames were at an all time low, so Londonist would suggest getting a boat. The Standard is reporting today that “high-speed commuting” …

SE1 has always been a place of cultural interest ever since those early tourists the Vikings rowed their longboats up the Thames and pulled London Bridge into the river with grappling hooks. Now a thousand years later another long haired blonde has set his sights …

London has more corners, and secrets, than anyone could imagine; every now and then, visionaries latch onto one neglected aspect of it and bring it to general attention, in the process transforming our view of the city we thought we knew so well. Of late, …

Despite the terror ‘scares’ and the escalating cost of real estate in the UK, London seems hell bent on building taller and taller buildings. But in recent weeks the trend seems to have stalled with numerous architectural hard luck stories in the press. Everyone knows …

Peter Lennard is the founder of The London Bridge Museum and Educational Trust, an organisation whose aim is to create “a dedicated Museum as a worthy tribute to the world’s most famous bridge.” (And if you’re thinking ‘hang on, where are they going to put …