Industry has thrived on the Wandle for many centuries. In 1086, 13 mills were already listed in the Domesday, and by the 19th ...

The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal moment in Western art, and the National Gallery takes us back to that time — ...

The Pan Pacific London hotel on Bishopsgate claims to have London's tallest Christmas tree right outside. We haven't measured ...

The great strength and innovation of Harry Beck's original Tube map was its schematic approach. Stations were not plotted ...

Smith opened a confectionary shop in Goswell Road sometime around 1840. During a sugary reconnaissance trip to Paris, he got ...

Slim pickings here, as all the big museums and galleries understandably shut on 25 December — for many, it's the only day of the year they close. In previous years Ripley's (later Body Worlds ...

London does Christmas lights very well indeed, from the world-famous illuminations on Oxford Street and Regent Street, to ...

Around London on 24 December 2024? Tend to leave your Christmas Day food shop till the last minute? Decidedly un-vegan? Then Smithfield's annual Christmas auction could be for you. Christmas ...

Sniggering during a memorial service is usually frowned upon, but not so at the Annual Grimaldi Clown Service — where cracking up during the sermon is all part of the experience. Since 1946, the ...

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This pub was voted one of the best in the area by Londonist readers. The Palm Tree is a remarkable survivor, standing alone in a Blitzed-out street. Inside, too, time has stopped. The same couple ...

You could easily walk past the AITF without ever realising that you just missed one of the area's most beautiful pubs. The outside is plain in the extreme — almost studiously uninteresting.