Hampton Wick in Teddington, south west London, has the dubious claim to fame of having lent its name to a bit of naughty rhyming slang but it is a hidden architectural and historical gem that should keep it in the public psyche. Normansfield Entertainment Hall, …
The Sands Films Studios in Rotherhithe are housed in an unprepossessing Grade II listed former granary. The Studios were founded in the 1970s and offer film production facilities, as you may expect, but also a cinema club (free) and a renowned costume-making workshop. You may …
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The Peck is just one of many small streams draining the swampy flood plain that is South London, but it’s an important and a fascinating one. Together with its northern branch, known …
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. Part I brought us from the slopes of Hampstead to the ponds of Regents Park, and Part II led us across Oxford Street, but the Tyburn still has a lot of ground …
Helping you find the sights, sounds, and occasional smells of our buried waterways. The above plan is of a location not far south of the Regents Park ponds, where we left off in Part I. This is in fact Baker Street station, as it looked …
The majority of London’s Thames tributaries now lie beneath the urban crust, and there’s more than just the Fleet down there. Think more along the lines of fifteen-odd waterways, each shaping the city in its own way. Though most are well concealed, if you want …
A report on London travel blog London Reconnections reveals that plans to re-open Maiden Lane station, which closed over 90 years ago, are in a preliminary stage. Sitting snugly between Camden Road and Caledonian Road & Barnsbury on the North London branch of London Overground, …
Isaac Newton famously said “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants“. Next time you gaze up at his sculpture on the British Library’s forecourt, consider that you are doing exactly the same. For most of the …
This could be a case for Mulder and Scully (good job too, seeing as they’re currently in town). A war-time airplane, apparently crushed behind the walls of a perfume factory in Croydon, is vexing locals, who’ve sniffed the stagnant stench of conspiracy and cover-up. If …
Aside from the memories of umpteen Ashes losses, the turf at Lord’s Cricket ground rests above a series of disused railway tunnels. While we’d love to see them opened up for nighttime jaunts, smarter heads have proposed they be turned into a subterranean hospital. The …
Back in the days when Bankside Power Station actually burned oil, it stored its fuel supply in a trio of enormous round tanks lying beneath the rear of the building. Nobody can afford such a quantity of oil these days, but the tanks are still …
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