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 …
Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Le Pain Quotidien 18 Great Marlborough Street (Turner Building), W1F 7HS 0207 486 6154 Expect to pay: around £5 for most breads, soups, salads, £10 and up for mains Call …
Do you have a beard / moustache / general facial hair? Well get ready to hydrate yourself as the vitaminwater shop on Little Portland Street, W1 opens it’s doors to you tonight. To celebrate the launch of their strange coloured water, beatbox champion Beardyman will …
It’s official – London’s tap water is apparently the best in the country. Who’d have thought it? We’ve all absorbed the marketing of bottled water (“ooh, it’s filtered through mountains”) and assumed that water from Buxton and elsewhere in the countryside would be better than …
A tale here of two local councils and their contrasting approaches to the pressing issue of water usage. Following a government campaign announced earlier this year, Westminster council have binned bottled water from their offices in favour of glugging straight from the tap (via a …
45. Creatures From The Black Lagoon The capital has a dark history of strange beasts emerging from the silted depths and breaking the surface, causing the general public to flee in terror. Terrapins in local ponds, wild pigs in the sewers, a piranha in the …
Government departments are being asked to switch from bottled to humble tap water for lubricating the endless meetings involved in running the Civil Service. Hot on the heels of Ken’s campaign to get London’s diners to insist on tap water in restaurants, this switch could …
Ken Livingstone’s on a tap water crusade. Him and Thames Water have launched a campaign to encourage Londoners to be proud to ask for tap water, however many grannies it’s been through. Not only are they extolling the quality of the water and the clear …
Talia has already covered the more common places to go dancing tomorrow night, but for a more alternative music New Years Eve, then wander over to Kings Cross’ Monto Water Rats to catch Brighton rockers Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster play a special New Years gig …
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