A selection of adverts from The Official Guide to Holborn 3re 1931 (published by J. Burrow & Co, Cheltenham). I enjoy the insights these...

Time Out reaches its Golden Jubilee on 12th August 2018. On this day back in 1968 the first edition was published in London. A radical...

Well, according to George Bernard Shaw, the famous “Wedding Cake” statue, part of the memorial to Queen Victoria, would be a contender....

In 1861 this curious piece of street furniture was installed on Piccadilly. It stood there for over a hundred and fifty years. In the...

The legend of Phyllis Pearsall, founder of Geographers' A-Z Map Company, has become controversial in recent years. The debate about...

In the early 1950s Charles Skilton issued a set of six postcards entitled "America in London" promising them to be "Of interest to all...

In 1947, 110 would be Royal Marine Commandos embarked upon a nationwide, five-day long, “personal initiative” test. Taking the initiative...

On November 18th 1904 Miss Gwen James of Glamorganshire received an unusually large quantity of post. Through her door at 22, Regent...

In 1971 the first national postal strike took place in the UK. In those days the Post Office had an absolute monopoly on the delivery of...

In 1944 the British Council produced a souvenir photography book solely for overseas forces stationed in the UK - This is London. The 40...

In 1933 Mr Norbury, an amateur photographer and chicken keeper, invented the world’s first security camera in London. His invention was...

Tower Bridge was designed to reconcile the conflicting interests of road and river traffic at a time when London was the world's most...

An eight month campaign to save Barry Baldwin’s Endangered Species sculptures at Allington House, near Victoria, London has ended. They...

I have been walking around Soho for many years and thought that I must have walked every street, I didn’t realise until very recently...

Barry Baldwin’s Endangered Species Sculptures at Allington House in Victoria have been spared from imminent destruction. Now they need a...

The Electricity Showrooms in Shoreditch is now a bar but it was once part of a far-sighted Borough Council initiative. Eighty years ago...

Ed Gray, arguably the greatest living painter of London and Londoners, is set to unveil his stunning new London panorama at his biggest...

Land Securities are planning to destroy Barry Baldwin’s endangered species sculptures at Allington House near Victoria in central London....

Londoners have always prided themselves on the enormous diversity and quantity of free sights to be enjoyed in this great city. Today we...

For the first time online here are high quality images of Samuel & Nathaniel Buck's complete sequence of five views of London as...