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 ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July Ed Gray introduces his new exhibition Streetlife Serenade: 30 Years of Painting City ...

If you have not yet objected to the monstrous block they want to plonk on top of Liverpool St St Station, the deadline is this Friday 4th July. When I wrote ten days ago there were only 180 objections ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on 19th July Join me in sending birthday greetings to this proud centenarian today Portrait by Sarah Ainslie There ...

In these dreamy days of high summer, I often think of my old cat Mr Pussy While Londoners luxuriate in the warmth of summer, I miss Mr Pussy who endured the hindrance of a fur coat, spending his ...

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.