1917. Best Picture 2020? Remembering the First World War.

St Dunstan in the East Most Londoners will know that through its long existence, the City of London has suffered great catastrophes. The...

Trajan's Column in the Cast Courts. The Victoria and Albert Museum is a remarkable treasure house. Initially designed to show off many of...

Queen Anne outside St Paul's Cathedral. Outside St Paul’s Cathedral stands a statue of until very recently, one of Britain’s less well...

Inigo Jones magnificent Banqueting House on Whitehall. Note the weather vane top left. About halfway along Whitehall, opposite...

The Victorian reproduction of the Eleanor Cross outside Charing Cross Station. When Charing Cross is mentioned, most people will tell you...

The enigmatic Stonehenge. Over the last week an article in the Times Newspaper reported that a recent academic, genetic study had...

Nicholas Hawksmoor's baroque masterpiece, Christ Church, Spitalfields. The accolade, London's most important architect, would I think, be...

Nelson's magnificent column. Dominating the great public space of Trafalgar Square is the the great memorial to Horatio, Admiral, The...

The famous wedding cake steeple of St Bride's Church. Hidden away on the South side of Fleet Street stands one of London's loveliest...

The tucked away entrance to the Churchill War Rooms. The recent release of the Winston Churchill movie, Darkest Hour has brought one of...

The Edith Cavell Memorial. On a busy working day in central London, many thousands of people will walk past a very substantial monument...

London's smallest police station with "Victory lamp". If you were to emerge from Charing Cross tube station via the exit that takes you...

At the very top of Whitehall, at the junction with Trafalgar Square, stands the oldest example in England of an equestrian statue. It...

Stretching majestically between Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace is the broad ceremonial avenue known as The Mall. This is the...

Although Stonehenge's origins go back at least 5000 years and human activity in the locality stretches even further back, perhaps another...

At the last count there were around 7000 pubs in London. Of course all of them are individual and have their own style.

At 215 miles long and neatly dividing London between North and South, the River Thames is the silvery thread that provides continuity for a