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 ...

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 or 300% rent increase this ...

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 ...

George Leybourne, Songwriter, Vocalist and Comedian, also known as Champagne Charlie (1842 – 1884) & Albert Chevalier (1861- 1923), Coster Comedian and Actor. Chevalier married Leybourne’s daughter ...

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. Many of the comments in favour are in response to ...

There is a quiet cul-de-sac to the east of Vallance Rd, positioned half way between Whitechapel and Bethnal Green, where all the East End’s stray cats – and sometimes stray humans – end up. But, ...