In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London ...

David Lewis (the former proprietor of London’s oldest ironmongers, specialised in serving the coach-building trade and operating from the same location in the Hackney Rd from 1797-2013) was the proud ...

Brought up as part of a big law-abiding family in King’s Cross, by the time Bobby Cummines left school at the age of sixteen he was already honing his reputation through a range of scams and schemes.

Fifty years ago, working class London was a cluster of self-contained villages boasting their own distinct occupations, football teams, and skulduggery. Indeed, every neighbourhood had its own ...

Next time you pass through Widegate St, walking from Bishopsgate towards Artillery Passage on your way to Spitalfields, lift up your eyes to see the four splendid sculptures of bakers by Philip ...

Photographer Barry Weston introduces his exuberant pictures of the Blues Dances held in Greenwich and Woolwich in the eighties, published for the first time here today.

An ancient thoroughfare with a mythic past, Cornhill takes its name from one of the three former hills of the City of London – an incline barely perceptible today after centuries of human activity ...

“I’m on a whisky diet . . . last week I lost three days!” ...