Preview: Sarah Angliss @ Last Tuesday Society
Sarah Angliss brings more steampunk strangeness to London next month with Talking Canaries & The Voices Of The Dead, a talk and demonstration at the Last Tuesday Society.
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7p Afternoon Tea At The Langham
The Langham Hotel was recently crowned Best Afternoon Tea in London by the Tea Guild. With such delectable treats as horseradish and smoked salmon sandwiches, the crumbliest of scones and intricate cakes and pastries, we’re not surprised. This little lot will normally set you back …
The Saturday Strangeness
82. A Christmas Ghost Story: Curse of the Nurse! One night in 1943, the air raids had been particularly severe over London, and so the following day it wasn’t unusual for workman Charles Bide to be sent off to various crumbling and damaged abodes to …
Goodbye, London’s Oldest Pool
Lewisham is a bit harsh, innit? Wot wiv all the crime an’ all. Well. That’s true. But there is also another side to Lewisham; one in which Victorian buildings co-exist with shiny regenerated areas, and where farmers’ markets and leisure centres are available for all …
Gin Is for Lovers . . . of Gin
Attention, gin enthusiasts: Here’s some Valentine’s tomfoolery from which you can actually benefit. “Nostalgic gin purveyors” Hendrick’s are hosting a Victorian Kissing Booth over at Selfridges this week, combining three loves of Londonist that we so rarely get to relish all at once: snogging in …
