For centuries, Caslon was the default typeface in the English language. William Caslon set up his type foundry in Chiswell St in 1737, where it operated without any significant change in the methods ...

Leila’s Shop by Eleanor Crow In common with all the shops in Calvert Avenue, leading up to Arnold Circus on the Boundary Estate, Leila’s Shop is being challenged by Tower Hamlets Council with eviction ...

Just fifty yards from Rotherhithe Station is a narrow door through which you can descend into the 1825 shaft via a makeshift staircase. You find yourself inside a huge round cavern, smoke-blackened as ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my next Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July When the summer heat hits the city and the streets get dusty and dry, I like to ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July Here is a selection of Ron McCormick’s splendid pictures from the seventies when he ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July Tepidarium at Billingsgate Roman bathhouse In Lower Thames St, where the traffic roars ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on Sunday 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on Saturday 19th July Ed Gray introduces his new exhibition, Streetlife Serenade: 30 Years of Painting City ...

If you have not yet objected to the monstrous block they want to plonk on top of Liverpool St St Station, the deadline is this Friday 4th July. When I wrote ten days ago there were only 180 objections ...