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Resting Places And Starting Points: St Mary’s Rotherhithe
An ex-pat ponders journeys between the New World and the Old.
Christmas Fun In The Brunel Museum’s Underground Chamber
One of those ‘must do’ London things.
London’s Top 10 Moats: A Spotter’s Guide
London’s moats: past, present and future.
Join Us On A Pub Crawl Along The East London Line
We’re doing a pub crawl along the East London line this Saturday. Fancy coming along?
Inside The Brunel Tunnel Shaft
Tonight: a rare chance to visit the tunnel shaft where IK Brunel almost died.
Weekend Round-Up
Bite-sized chunks of weekend news across the capital.
New Restaurant Review: The Compass
The Compass Invited to check out a new opening in Rotherhithe, we fell at the first hurdle of finding it. Put the postcode into your Google Maps, though, because it’s worth the effort. An impromptu tour of Rotherhithe’s backstreets later, we’d even go as far …
East London Line Now Open Weekends
After a reasonably successful testing period on weekdays, the East London line will open on Saturdays and Sundays from this weekend (May 15th) onwards, according to in-station advertisements. The line will keep similar opening times, from 7am to 8pm on Saturday, and 8am to 8pm …
In Pictures: Brunel’s Thames Tunnel
To mark the end of the EAST Festival, and as the East London Line prepares to re-open after two years, the London Transport Museum and the Brunel Museum offered about 2000 members of the public a unique opportunity to turn Brunel’s tunnel under the Thames …
Unusual Brunel Statue Planned For Rotherhithe
Plans to erect a 15 metre statue of Isambard Kingdom Brunel near the Rotherhithe tunnel have met with disdain from local residents (and probably approval as well, but disdain is much more fun to report). One of the main criticisms is that it looks, frankly, …
