111. The Swarm! On the 2nd April 1902 it was said that an unnatural darkness fell upon Wimbledon. No smoke or clouds were evident and locals began to panic considerably until, after ten minutes, the eeriness subsided. Had the residents of this London suburb been …
108. The Strange Case of the Flying Whatsit of Wimbledon! When there’s something strange, in your neighbourhood… who ya gonna call? If ever there was a case of something weird resembling the green slimer from hit ’80s movie ‘Ghostbusters’, then it was the ‘thing’ that …
A Londoner has just paid £70,000 for a suit. A very nice suit, admittedly, but still…. The Kings Cross lighthouse is to get a bit of fancy TLC. Spoilsports at Wimbledon have gone and covered the Centre Court, thus removing one of the few advantages …
Londonist Film Club looks at films with one thing in common: London. Our only rule is that the films must have either the word London or a London place name in the title. Other than that, any film is fair game. Wimbledon (2004) Director: Richard …
Mr Stevens’ bedroom, yesterday. Wimbledon-based pensioner Christopher Stevens attracted police attention after placing a Wanted ad for an electrical component in the Radio Society of Great Britain’s members magazine. It may have been the small print that did it: I want see if I can …
Image by dartar from the Londonist Flickr pool Sheepishness is… being made queen of an African tribe while maintaining anti-royalist sentiment. Which is exactly what happened to Liz Busch from Wimbledon who has been made queen of the Ewe tribe in Ghana, as recognition for …
London is now the continent’s capital of 3D cinema as ODEON launched the first digital screens in Europe this week. It’s more than just getting to wear those funny glasses, as £1.5m has been spent on the cinemas in Greenwich and Wimbledon, allowing film-buffs to …
What do you want your local Firefighter to be doing right now? We’d want ours to be busily climbing ladders to save desperate families from 6th-floor smoke-billowing windows, or at least rescuing cute cats from tree branches. Last year Stephen-Remmell Coleman from Wimbledon fire station …
Olympic Delivery Authority criticised over construction emissions Attack on police in Croydon may have been gang retaliation Don’t read this if you ate strawberries at Wimbledon Notting Hill Carnival will be “Welcoming the World” “funkapolitan” style with Boris ululating on the side Image courtesy of …
Er, so OK, perhaps that should read ‘Briton wins Wimbledon’. But the fact is that after a summer of pretty dire sports news for the UK, we have our first British junior Wimbledon champion for 24 years. AND she’s from Wimbledon. Laura Robson, at 14, …
Whilst British ladies hopeful Elena Baltacha’s out on Court 2 today and homegrown Chris Eaton’s making tantalisingly promising progress into round 2 elsewhere, a dedicated police squad are cracking down on ticket touts outside the All England Club and removing obsessive fans to a safe …
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