Neon art and signs in North London at God’s Own Junkyard
Keep going past the leafy lanes and brick cottages of Walthamstow ‘village’ and you’ll find an industrial estate with a unit full of fairground colour and sparkle.
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Keep going past the leafy lanes and brick cottages of Walthamstow ‘village’ and you’ll find an industrial estate with a unit full of fairground colour and sparkle.
Although the new extension to Tate Modern is about being able to display more art, to more people, it is also an impressive new piece of architecture for London. And in keeping with the...
Tate Members got the chance to visit the new extension the London’s Tate Modern tonight. These photos are of details of the interior of the building, which if you are a fan of Brutalist...
I love an obscure collection, and I’d had Hélène Alexander’s collection of fans on my list for a while. The Fan Museum opened twenty years ago, and has since added to her original collection via various...
I’m not sure if there is a puppet connection with Wandsworth, but this is the second time I’ve come across a veritable treasure trove of puppets in the area. The first was when I...
Specifically granite and marble… Ok, so they’re mostly imported from Brazil and Italy, but these slices of stone on show in the yard of Vauxhall’s Granite & Marble UK Ltd make for an interesting and beautiful geology lesson.
Running around Guildhall Yard – and partially underneath Guildhall itself – is a black ring inlaid into the paving. This ring outlines a Roman amphitheatre, the remains of which were found during major archaeological excavations that took...
It used to be Lambeth’s Workhouse in Victorian times (Charlie Chaplin was a former resident), then a maternity ward when the NHS bought it. Today it is the home of London’s Cinema Museum. Ronald Grant...
Walking around the City of London on Boxing Day, we came across this mosaic timeline at Queenhithe Dock. Unveiled last year, it is the work of Southbank Mosaics, and is the result of research...
Brompton cemetery, built in 1840, is one of London’s ‘Magnificent Seven’ garden cemeteries (the others are Kensal Green, West Norwood, Highgate, Abney Park, Nunhead and the Tower Hamlets Cemeteries, all established between 1832-1841) It contains 35,000 monuments from lavish...
Some friends and I walked around 7 miles in the Autumn fog and sunshine from Leyton to the Tottenham Hale. The route took in marshes, cows, defunct filter beds, monumental art, canals, tree climbing and...
It’s September so the football season is in full swing in the UK. Walking through a South London park I saw that new lines had not only been painted, but also mown individually into...