On a patch of land off the Old Kent Road once stood a Soviet tank that had lost its war but not its attitude. South Londoners called it Stompie, and for nearly three decades it was the most delightfully absurd monument to bureaucratic spite in the capital. londonopia.co.uk/the-soviet-t...

Near Tottenham. #loserElon

Flood alert for high tide this afternoon at Bankside (outside Tate Modern) check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/...

A post on Reddit that asks an important question: Why is there so much anti-indian sentiment/racism in London? Today, i was walking past a group of white 20yr olds in Soho and one of them said 'this isn't india, get out'.

A post on Reddit that asks an important question: Why is there so much anti-indian sentiment/racism in London? Today, i was walking past a group of white 20yr olds in Soho and one of them said 'this isn't india, get out'.

London’s Best Vintage Flea Markets There’s something intoxicating about London’s flea markets — part nostalgia, part archaeology. They’re the city’s slow heartbeat beneath the glass towers and chain cafés: places where time frays, and the past feels almost affordable. Forget the glossy world of…

Park Royal: London’s Kitchen The West London area Park Royal is the city's kitchen — a place that clatters and steams long before the rest of the city wakes. It’s not a beauty spot or a brunch destination; it’s the vast backstage where the capital’s appetite is prepared. Every city needs somewhere…

The Kimpton Fitzroy: Bloomsbury’s Terracotta Time Machine Step out of Russell Square station and the Kimpton Fitzroy doesn’t so much appear as announce itself: a full city block of thé-au-lait terracotta, turrets and swagger, like a French château that took a wrong turn at Calais and decided…

The Counting House: Where the City’s Fortunes Still Flow If you were to design a pub to impress a Victorian banker, it might look something like The Counting House on Cornhill — only you’d probably tone it down a little for fear of gilding the lily. This is a place that doesn’t just whisper “old…

The Coolest Launderette in London A laundrette with soul Hidden among the sculptural concrete of the Barbican Estate hums a survivor from another age — a place of warmth, rhythm and stubborn beauty. The Barbican Launderette, is that rarest thing in London: a utility that became an icon. It’s been…

A photograph of the London Underground taken by Bert Hardy in 1952. #london #londonunderground

The Coolest Launderette in London A laundrette with soul Hidden among the sculptural concrete of the Barbican Estate hums a survivor from another age — a place of warmth, rhythm and stubborn beauty. The Barbican Launderette, is that rarest thing in London: a utility that became an icon. It’s been…

The Farm House, Mayfair’s Gothic Oddity In Mayfair, that district of polished limestone and quiet money, there stands a building that refuses to behave. At 22 Farm Street, a half-timbered fantasy squats between the restrained façades like a time-traveller who missed the memo on modernity. It’s…

A trip on the DLR at sunrise can be magical. #london #DLR #canarywharf #isleofdogs

The Halloween display at private members club Annabels in Berkeley Square Mayfair. #london #mayfair

London Hero: The Tube Worker Quietly Saving Lives Every day, millions of Londoners descend into the city’s underworld — that humming labyrinth of tunnels and timetables we call the Tube. For most of us, the journey is mundane: headphones in, Oyster tapped, brain switched off. But for a small,…

London Hero: The Tube Worker Quietly Saving Lives Every day, millions of Londoners descend into the city’s underworld — that humming labyrinth of tunnels and timetables we call the Tube. For most of us, the journey is mundane: headphones in, Oyster tapped, brain switched off. But for a small,…

Daytime shot of the Great Smog of 1952. Over 5 choking days some 4000 people were killed.

Too Much London: The Real Film Locations Behind Lena Dunham’s Netflix Drama London doesn’t just set the stage for Too Much — it steals scenes.In Lena Dunham and Luis Felber’s Netflix drama, the city is the third lead: chaotic, magnetic, and perpetually late to its own story. It hums in the…

Park Royal: London’s Kitchen The West London area Park Royal is the city's kitchen — a place that clatters and steams long before the rest of the city wakes. It’s not a beauty spot or a brunch destination; it’s the vast backstage where the capital’s appetite is prepared. Every city needs somewhere…

Fined £150 for pouring coffee down a drain. Right or wrong? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

London’s Longstanding Love Affair with Oysters London, our ever-hungry metropolis, has always had a complicated relationship with its food—lustful one minute, disdainful the next, reinventing old flames and discarding others like last season’s gastro trend. But one affair has endured the centuries…

Somers Town Tucked between the thundering arteries of King’s Cross, St Pancras, and Euston, Somers Town is a pocket of London that refuses to be rushed. It sits quietly in the shadow of rail lines and glass towers, a neighbourhood both compressed and resilient — a place where London’s grand…

The Henry Prince Estate, Earlsfield: Brick Arches and a Civic Dream That Endures Walk up Garratt Lane in Earlsfield, South London and the Henry Prince Estate doesn’t so much announce itself as stage an entrance. Those sweeping brick arches — white-banded, confident, timeless — rise like a civic…

Romford Dogs: London’s Last Great Chase If you take the Elizabeth Line far enough east, where London’s glassy confidence begins to fray into Essex pragmatism, you’ll find it: Romford Greyhound Stadium — a low-lit temple of grit and glory, still standing where so many others have fallen. Once the…

On a languid bend of the River Thames, nestled somewhere between Shepperton and Weybridge, lies a place that sounds like it belongs in a mummy’s memoir or a Bond villain’s holiday brochure: Pharaoh’s Island. londonopia.co.uk/pharaohs-isl...

Best Sunday Markets in London by Area There’s something sacred about a Sunday market. Maybe it’s the whiff of sourdough mingling with vintage corduroy. Maybe it’s the chance to drop £18 on a punnet of heritage tomatoes and pretend it’s self-care. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s because London does them…

A bit off topic but we had no idea this was a thing. thefreaky.net/job-candidat...

londonopia.co.uk/the-man-who-... The man who can "taste " the name of every tube station. #London #LondonUnderground #tfl

Best Sunday Markets in London by Area There’s something sacred about a Sunday market. Maybe it’s the whiff of sourdough mingling with vintage corduroy. Maybe it’s the chance to drop £18 on a punnet of heritage tomatoes and pretend it’s self-care. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s because London does them…

Come on London, get drinking and save the economy!

Elizabeth “Madam” Cresswell: London’s Bawd Queen She slips through the misty alleys of London’s memory like a whispered scandal — Elizabeth Cresswell, known in her time as Madam Cresswell, courtesan-entrepreneur, political underworld broker, and lightning rod for moral outrage. To call her merely…

londonopia.co.uk/the-canal-aq... You might not expect to find a serene waterway serenely floating above the traffic of the North Circular. Yet, that’s exactly what happens at the Stonebridge Park Aqueduct, where a branch of the Grand Union Canal crosses over this major road. #London #UKCanals

Thames Water removes 100-tonne fatberg from west London sewer

On a languid bend of the River Thames, nestled somewhere between Shepperton and Weybridge, lies a place that sounds like it belongs in a mummy’s memoir or a Bond villain’s holiday brochure: Pharaoh’s Island. londonopia.co.uk/pharaohs-isl...

Grosvenor Square, Mayfair Once the preserve of powdered wigs and whispered diplomacy, Grosvenor Square is now where memory, money, and manicured hedges jostle for elbow room. Located in the heart of Mayfair, this iconic London square has reinvented itself more times than Madonna—and somehow still…

Newgate Prison: The Ghost Beneath the Old Bailey Walk long enough through the City of London and you’ll pass ghosts disguised as office blocks. Beneath the glass and granite of the Old Bailey once stood Newgate Prison — a place so cruel it could curdle the Thames. Here, justice was a spectacle,…

Did you know you can find two remnants of the old London Bridge in Victoria Park? The current London Bridge was built in 1967 replacing an earlier one that was built in 1831. When the bridge was demolished a few of the alcoves were saved. Two are in Victoria Park.

The Greek Community of London: From Greek Street to Palmers Greek London is a city of layers, each one stitched with the stories of the people who settled here. Among the most enduring threads are the Greeks, who over centuries have built churches, opened cafés, launched businesses, and raised…

Priss Fotheringham and Her Infamous “Chucking” London loves its eccentrics. We carve them into blue plaques, mutter their names in pub stories, and stitch them into the long, messy quilt of the city’s history. Some are kings and reformers; others are bawds and tricksters. Among the latter, few…

St Dunstan in the East: London’s Most Beautiful Secret Ruin Step off the busy arteries of the City and you’ll find it: a ruin that isn’t quite a ruin, a church that isn’t quite a church, and a garden that feels like a secret only London could keep. St Dunstan in the East is the kind of place you…

St Dunstan in the East: London’s Most Beautiful Secret Ruin Step off the busy arteries of the City and you’ll find it: a ruin that isn’t quite a ruin, a church that isn’t quite a church, and a garden that feels like a secret only London could keep. St Dunstan in the East is the kind of place you…

London’s iconic G-A-Y bar is to close down, its owner Jeremy Joseph announced today.

The Michelin Building: A Belle Époque Temple to Tyres and Tiles There is a certain romance to a good tyre. Not the dull black rubber loops we take for granted, but the idea of them: speed, endurance, the promise of the open road. And if ever a building could capture that sense of adventure, it is…

London Underground, 1890

John Archer: Battersea’s First Black Mayor London likes to think of itself as endlessly modern and progressive, but in 1913, the idea of a Black man becoming a borough mayor sent monocles popping into teacups across the city. That man was John Richard Archer, a Liverpudlian photographer, radical…

An exciting milestone for travel in East and South London. The first of 54 brand-new DLR trains is now in service, featuring: ✅ Walk-through carriages ✅ Air-con ✅ Mobile charging points These new trains will support thousands of new homes and jobs and improve journeys.

The Boudican Destruction Horizon: London’s First Apocalypse Beneath Our Feet Londoners live on layers. Tube tunnels snake under Georgian sewers under Tudor vaults under Roman roads. But there is one layer, charred and defiant, that marks the city’s first recorded apocalypse: the Boudican…

The Kimpton Fitzroy: Bloomsbury’s Terracotta Time Machine Step out of Russell Square station and the Kimpton Fitzroy doesn’t so much appear as announce itself: a full city block of thé-au-lait terracotta, turrets and swagger, like a French château that took a wrong turn at Calais and decided…