WHEN BORIS Johnson became Mayor of London in June 2007 he said he was going to open up the lost rivers of London. Surprise, surprise, it never happened. The Fleet,…
Road works in our street in Victoria to install new electricity cables this week have uncovered part of the entrance to a vast Victorian prison. The old bricks (above) which…
Walking from Victoria Station yesterday in front of the Victoria Palace Theatre, where Billy Elliot is still playing, I noticed this trench being dug as part of the gargantuan redevelopment…
Jewel Tower The Abbey Part of Whitehall Palace revealed by road works You won’t find any travel brochures luring you to spend a holiday on Thorney Island…
It is not often that London’s hidden rivers are revealed to the open air in which they once basked – but it has happened momentarily to the Tyburn as…