Old Liverpool St Station was both a labyrinth and the beast in the labyrinth too. There were so many tunnels twisting and turning that you felt you were entering the entrails of a monster and when you ...

John Betjeman on Liverpool St Station c1961, photograph by David Sim . If you have not yet objected to the monstrous block they want to plonk on top of Liverpool St St Station, the deadline is 4th ...

But, fortunately for them, Peggy Metaxas, is waiting to offer a plate of food or a cup of tea before putting them on the right path again. Peggy has been presiding here as long as anyone can remember, ...

A vital transport hub through two world wars and, most significantly, the point of arrival for the Kindertransport, children fleeing nazi Germany, this is the station that John Betjeman fought to save ...

With his aristocratic attitude, Mr Pussy took amusement in watching the passersby from his high vantage point on the street frontage and enjoyed lapping water from his dish on the kitchen window sill ...

William Godwin began creating gothic tiles by the encaustic process century at his factory at Lugwardine in Herefordshire and became one of the leading manufacturers in the nineteenth century, ...

I am delighted to announce that Spitalfields baker, George Fuest of POPULATIONS BAKERY has opened his first bakery shop this week, where you can buy his creations over the counter, as part of CORNER ...

I have only just found these GA and I am going to be looking at them over and over again, they are wonderful. I have always, since student days as a graphic designer, been interested in trade cards ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on 19th July . It is my pleasure to publish these evocative pictures of the East End (with some occasionally ...

‘Many of these paintings were made in kitchens, the heart of any house, café or restaurant. Places that are often a repository of things we have collected, things that have been handed down to us and ...