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 most well known of t...

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

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 known monarchs. Follow...

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

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

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

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

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

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 churches. This is St Br...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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