The last of London’s remaining cabmen’s shelters – distinctive green huts that once provided much-needed rest stops for licenced horse-drawn cab drivers – has been given protected heritage status, it was announced... Read more »
Tomorrow’s Heritage Bus Day (March 23) will allow people to ride old buses along the 62 and 145 routes from 10am to 5pm. The London Bus Museum, a registered charity, will be running the... Read more »
In the heart of Highbury & Islington, North London, a warm and inviting family-owned bakery stands as a testament to resilience and a rich Spanish heritage. Benita Bakery, named after owner Pilar... Read more »
An aristocratic lady from the 17th century who was considered quite beautiful seems to have fallen from favour after she died, as someone had applied an “Instagram” filter to the painting to... Read more »
Haworth Tompkins has drawn up plans to transform a grade II-listed former library in east London into a museum and community space for Newham Council. The Stirling Prize-winning practice has submitted plans... Read more »
London is constantly changing – and it feels like that’s the case more than ever right now, with new developments like this new south London housing project and the new Putney embankment. However, as... Read more »
The National Lottery Heritage Fund launches groundbreaking 10-year investment initiative, Heritage Places, to inspire communities, revitalise economies and build pride in place. Medway places heritage at the heart of the development of... Read more »
Mark Corbyn, co-founder of The Adobros, a Filipino supper club in London offering traditional Filipino food and hospitality, is of mixed Filipino and English heritage and a migrant born in Hong Kong... Read more »
A Jacobean manor house that has been home to a primary school, an institute for training domestic servants and bedsit accommodation for spinsters in the past 100 years has undergone a £6m... Read more »
Next month is a chance to ride in a 1938 era tube train through central London and up to north London on the Piccadilly line. Or to watch it from the sidelines... Read more »
