With the exception of the Museum of London Docklands, which has permanent exhibitions on the history of London’s ports, there are few places where you can go to find out about the important industrial heritage of East London. There are glass cases here and there amongst the borough museums where you can piece together some [...]

The streets of central London, and Whitehall in particular, are scattered with memorials to the various branches of the Armed Forces. Halfway along Whitehall Place there’s a rather special one – a group of five strong-jawed soldiers in berets representing the Royal Tank Regiment. The Royal Tank Regiment Memorial Statue was unveiled by their Colonel [...]

As I mentioned on the Londoneer last week, street artists from London and beyond have been transforming the Dulwich streetscape with new murals as part of ‘Baroque the Streets’ – a nine day long collaboration between Street Art London and the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Much of their energy has been focused on 265 Lordship Lane, [...]

Alight at Greenwich National Rail station or its equivalent DLR stop and you’ll find yourself next to a large new housing development that’s currently under construction. A common site in London’s suburbs you might think, but head away from the station towards the main road and you’ll discover some public art work on the hoardings [...]

One of the buildings that forms part of Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College contains some of the most spectacular interiors to be found anywhere in London – feast your eyes on the Painted Hall. Designed by Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor, and executed to designs by James Thornhill, nearly every surface in the building [...]

Kensington Palace Gardens have been given a whole new look: a face lift, you could say. Last year a competition was held to revive Kensington Palace and the public spaces around it, with landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan winning the garden component. With work completed just in time for last year’s Diamond Jubilee (and allowing plenty of [...]

If you’ve not visited recently you won’t know that the area around Victoria station looks rather like a war zone at the moment, as the developers have recently razed entire streets near the station, flattening office blocks, shops, apartments and a hotel for a new site which will rival Cardinal Place, which was built on [...]