Stockwell

A round up of Wednesday-shaped stuff. With some very silly news from Westfield.

The Royal Academy has invited various luminaries to name what they believe to be the capital’s most important building. One of the nominations? A bus garage in south London.

An e-fit of the Stockwell double rapist has been released. There have been health warnings over a big tyre fire in Rainham. 2012 volunteers? over 100,000 people want in. On the tube driver who just wanted to be a terrorist: a court hears all about …

In search of London’s best sandwich since sliced bread With the icy winds still penetrating our city, London’s collective core body temperature has nose-dived into the spectrum normally occupied by cryogenically frozen oligarchs who are awaiting their reincarnation. The thought of another near frosty sandwich …

Yesterday morning, friends, family and supporters of Jean Charles de Menezes gathered outside Stockwell Tube to mark what would have been the Brazilian’s 32nd birthday and to unveil a new memorial. The colourful mosaic by local artist Mary Edwards records the fatal shooting of de …

Image by McTumshie, showing a display at the London Transport Museum Londonist last week in numbers and the pictures these numbers translate into… 20,000 or twice that forming The Wave that hit parliament to mark the start of that thing taking place in Copenhagen 28 …

Today, eight years after four planes did things that planes should never do, it seems appropriate to be talking about an event that happened on our own doorsteps as a direct consequence of those “extraordinary” circumstances. We say “extraordinary” because that’s a word that kept …

Image / Simon Crubellier The oft-quoted canard that Britons are captured on CCTV “300 times a day” was exposed a few months ago by David Aaronovitch as dubious at best, highly inaccurate at worst. Yet that hasn’t stopped one south London school from trying to …

A shining example of a local-area blog this week in the excellent Stockwell News. Providing a great resource of travel, in-depth news as well as local history and anecdotes including everyone from Houdini to the mysterious Rosemary Brown. If you had to describe your blog …

This week’s interviewee, is South London legend, the Onion Bag Blog, who has been musing about all things South of the river since 2003. We caught up with him to find out what about London keeps him typing. If you had to describe your blog …