Gavin Turk at Newport Street Gallery
Posted on February 21, 2017
Having been meaning to visit for ages I can confirm it’s worth a trip even for Contemporary Art sceptics (even if you just pop in to look at the restaurant and architecture!)...
Visit Leighton House (and the Most Beautiful Room in London?!)
Posted on February 2, 2017
Leighton House was built for the Victorian artist Lord Frederic Leighton in the mid 1860s and it contains one of the most exquisite hidden gems of London...
The Bright Lights of Soho
Posted on January 3, 2017
There used to be a time when walking through Soho, you'd be bombarded by neon lights. They'd be offering sex, toys or girls, girls girls! I popped into the Member's Club aiming to bring back Soho's fun side....
Dennis Severs’ House: Inside London’s Strangest Home
Posted on December 30, 2016
Tucked off busy Bishopsgate is Norton Folgate, an enclave of forgotten 18th Century London. But surely the strangest address is that of number 18, Dennis Severs House....
6 Surprising Icons You’ll Find at the Design Museum
Posted on December 15, 2016
I'll be honest, I was pretty devastated when the Design Museum upped and left from Shad Thames. Does Kensington really need another museum? Despite this initial resentment, I managed to find some pretty epic surprises from everyday objects....
Mary Evans Picture Library
Ever heard of the Mary Evans Picture Library? I visited for the first time last week and it's pretty much a treasure trove of iconic images. What's a Picture Library? A private company, Mary Evans supply historic images for newspapers, exhibitions and TV documentaries, so basically a bricks...
Crossness Pumping Station | Look Inside
19th century London was a mess. The smelly, polluted and disorganised City just couldn’t reach an agreement about sewage. There were 8 conflicted independent commissioners in charge, who only cared about their own districts. But it did provide, in my opinion, London’s best-named public disaster… The Great Stink Summer...
Why Strawberry Hill House is Well Worth a Visit
Created as a summer villa between 1748 and 1790, Strawberry Hill House is one of the earliest and finest examples of the Gothic Revival style. It's so brilliantly OTT that it's even coined its own style; Strawberry Hill Gothic. Just look at it. It's almost ridiculous in...
In Pictures: Supreme Court Open Day
Though it looks older, the present neo-gothic building by James GIbson's was completed 1913, the third courthouse to be built on this site since 1807. When this building was chosen to house the Supreme Court, the outside underwent a thorough clean and the interior were repainted...
In Pictures: Down Street Station Tour
Posted on August 28, 2016
Most Londoners probably don't want to spend much time in damp, dark tunnels. You may be surprised, to learn that Hidden London's Disused Tube Station Tours sell out within minutes....