Celebrating the US presidential inauguration in London tomorrow? We want your photos to post on Wednesday. Just upload ‘em to Flickr, send ‘em to our Flickr pool and make sure to tag ‘em Londonist and, oh let’s see … Obama. Thanks! Photo by Simon-K via …
Ah, the strange beauty of gasometers. These metal giants grace our landscapes with their brooding magnificence, either full, rusty and textural, or with their open lattice-work skeletons making tartan patterns against the sky. A BBC article from January 1999 foretold that Transco intended to dismantle …
A U-boat below Tower Bridge, tanks in Ludgate and the Crystal Palace still extant. Welcome to another set of rarely seen images of London (previously). The photos are drawn from a special section of Flickr known as The Commons. The project collects images from photographic …
While the rest of us were ripping open the wrapping paper, like so many festive zombies yank-lacerating the bindings of our captive and pliant gifts, blogger IanVisits was working his way around the streets of London, reliving a very different zombie experience. Any Londoner familiar …
LIFE magazine and Google Images have teamed up to make millions of archive images available to the public for the first time. Within this stupendous resource are hidden thousands of pictures of a vanished London. We say ‘hidden’ because searching for ‘London’ yields no results. …
If the idea of going to the country over the weekend is just a bit too involved, heading over to Old Spitalfields Market today might be able to give you some illusion of escaping the big city. Though billed as “the Countryside Comes to Spitalfields,” …
Boris Johnson might just have won himself the election with a pledge to abolish the bendy bus and bring back the Routemaster. Emotions were high today as the Bethnal Green tube station disaster was commemorated, 65 years on. Londonist is feeling left out: we want …
This week saw Londonist get incredibly excited about a few live music events. First up, was French pop sensation Yelle, who played an intimate show at the Old Blue Last. Then, we had the Camden Crawl line up which, as ever, is pretty amazing for …
As much-loved venues like the Spitz and Hammersmith Palais closed their doors forever last year, we began to worry that the small gig would one day become an endangered species. One of our favourite things to do in this great city is to pack into …
This week saw Londonist Get Scientific when we previewed We Are Scientists playing Soho Revue Bar this Tuesday, get excited about Eurovision and get cosy with Portico Quartet. A busy week all in all! Looking ahead to this week however, we have Eels playing Royal …
Following the Oscars this weekend there are free film screenings all over town this week. Edify thyself and make new friends running across 5 different genres of movie for no expenditure whatsoever. Monday: The Duke Mitchell Film Club is holding heist night at the Cross …
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