In Lower Thames St, where the traffic roars past old Billingsgate Market and around the Tower of London, there is an anonymous door that leads to the past. It is a piece of spine-tingling magic. You ...

Ed Gray introduces his new exhibition Streetlife Serenade: 30 Years of Painting City Life which opens tomorrow at House of Annetta 25 Princelet St, E16QH and runs until 20th July. Mondays & Tuesdays ...

Old Liverpool St Station was both a labyrinth and the beast in the labyrinth too. There were so many tunnels twisting and turning that you felt you were entering the entrails of a monster and when you ...

But, fortunately for them, Peggy Metaxas, is waiting to offer a plate of food or a cup of tea before putting them on the right path again. Peggy has been presiding here as long as anyone can remember, ...

With his aristocratic attitude, Mr Pussy took amusement in watching the passersby from his high vantage point on the street frontage and enjoyed lapping water from his dish on the kitchen window sill ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on 19th July It is my pleasure to publish these evocative pictures of the East End (with some occasionally facetious ...

John Betjeman on Liverpool St Station c1961, photograph by David Sim If you have not yet objected to the monstrous block they want to plonk on top of Liverpool St St Station, the deadline is 4th July.

A while ago, I was intrigued to hear of a baker running a solo bakery from a shed in the backyard of a house in Fournier St by the name of Populations Bakery. Orders could only placed online, I learnt ...