Beneath the streets of Dalston, engineers are working to complete the Western Curve, a 350m tunnel that forms part of the East London line extension to Highbury & Islington. TfL invited us on a tour to see how things are progressing.
A warm welcome to the world of London blogging for Daniel Brackley, aka The Sewer Man. As a flusher for Thames Water, Daniel knows the feculent subterranean crannies of our city as well as anyone whose surname isn’t Bazalgette, and has acted as Londonist’s guide …
Open House, the ever-popular weekend event in which hundreds of normally private buildings in the capital are thrown open to the curious and the nosy, has come and gone. The main attraction this year was the BT Tower, open to the public for the first …
Readers with moleish tendencies will be excited to learn of a festival celebrating subterranean London. The main event and week-long exhibition kick off in the basement of Shoreditch Town Hall on 9 September, where ‘many of London’s underground secrets’ will be recreated by artists. A …
This is the Fleet, the largest of London’s ‘vanished’ rivers. And we’re enjoying a rare opportunity to paddle along its slimy bed thanks to an invitation from the good people at Thames Water.
‘Ghost station’ Aldwych is opening its ticket area (until July 9) for a small exhibition on ‘transforming the Tube’. It’s a rare chance to examine the interior of a disused underground station, one that has seen ne’er a passenger since 1994. You will not, however, …
James Davies is a photographer with a particular eye for the overlooked and interstitial spaces of London. He recently put together a small book of his best shots. As we’re also ever-on-the-quest for London peculiars and unusual city insights, we thought we’d interview him. So, …
The Clerkenwell House of Detention, north-east of Clerkenwell Green, has a long and turbulent history stretching back to 1617, including its destruction by fire in the 1780 Gordon Riots. The prison was demolished in 1893 to make way for Hugh Myddleton School (the impressive building …
You don’t have to be Robert Downey Jr to get a view of London from the heights of Tower Bridge. The walkways along the top are open every day for paying tourists and private functions. The bits with the best views are normally off-limits, however. …
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. Along with the Tyburn and Fleet, the River Westbourne is one of the ‘big three’ lost watercourses north of the Thames, now buried and used as a sewer. It shares a similar …
There are now so many books purporting to reveal the ‘hidden’ or ‘secret’ side of London that they probably outnumber the mainstream guides. Books offering a cliché-free guide to the city are therefore becoming something of a cliché themselves. How many more volumes do we …
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