Look Up London is about spotting little details above your eyeline then using them to unravel the secret history of your location.
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Be transported to India with a visit to one of London's most astonishing creations....
From the outisde on Mitcham Road, the former Tooting Granada Cinema doesn't look much. But inside this Bingo Hall is jaw-dropping....
On a special tour of Southwark Cathedral I got to ascend the tower. The views - you'll be happy to know - did not disappoint! Join me on the climb...
Dalston is host to one of the strangest – and smallest – collections; The Clown Museum in Trinity Church. If you're a coulrophobe, look away now...
Look up at 31-35 Eastcheap to see an array of carvings and pastel tones. Newly restored, the architects have preserved the clues to its history...
Back for another year, Winter Lights 2019 returns to Canary Wharf with a wealth of extraordinary lights installations....
These sapphire spheres give us so many historic tidbits, but I've focussed on the really stange ones...
Tucked behind Change Alley in The City is a plaque that most people don't notice...
Designed as a small hospital chapel. The Fitzrovia Chapel is an absolute jewel of a church, only a 5 minute walk from Oxford Street....
The main reason to enter a car park is to, y'know, park or retrieve your car. But in this London Car Park, you get the bonus of a piece of Roman wall!...
The main reason to enter a car park is to, y'know, park or retrieve your car. But in this London Car Park, you get the bonus of a piece of Roman wall!...
The main reason to enter a car park is to, y'know, park or retrieve your car. But in this London Car Park, you get the bonus of a piece of Roman wall!...