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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Clive was a poet at heart and there is an unsentimental appreciation of the human condition that runs through all his work. He chose his subjects because he saw the poetry in them when no-one else did ...