rotherhithe

One of those ‘must do’ London things.

London’s moats: past, present and future.

We’re doing a pub crawl along the East London line this Saturday. Fancy coming along?

Tonight: a rare chance to visit the tunnel shaft where IK Brunel almost died.

Bite-sized chunks of weekend news across the capital.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

The river mud at Rotherhithe gave up an unusual find: a locked ball and chain possibly dating from the 17th – 18th century, though minus its unlucky prisoner. The discovery was made by a mudlark; the modern-day treasure seeking descendent of the Victorian scavengers who …