The Museum of London Docklands has a new exhibition (until 1st March 2026) called Secrets of the Thames: Mudlarking London’s Lost Treasures. It is the UK’s first major exhibition about mudlarking and looks at lots of the amazing items that have been found on the foreshore of the river, as well as mudlarking as a
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Often in London and its history, things are not quite as they seem. Tucked down a secluded lane between the busy Strand and the Embankment, you will find the Strand Lane ‘Roman Bath’. It is, however, neither Roman, nor originally a bath. I recently managed to visit this particular spot when they had a free
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Nestled in the Chess Valley in Buckinghamshire, not far from Chalfont and Latimer Metropolitan Line station, is an attractive red-brick, neo-Tudor mansion. Called Latimer House, the site has a history stretching back centuries as an aristocratic manor house. It also has an extraordinary World War Two story, when it was used to house, and extract
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The Royal Opera House is a great London institution and, the building itself, an ornate and eye-catching landmark in Covent Garden. For nearly 300 years now, theatre, operas, ballet and more have been performed for the London public from this spot. The on-stage stories are naturally very dramatic, but the building itself also has a
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London has had many world firsts in its history, perhaps most notably, it was the first city in the world to develop an underground railway. A lesser-known ‘first’ however, is that it also had the world’s first tunnel under a navigable river. The Thames Tunnel, that runs from Rotherhithe to Wapping, was designed by Marc Brunel
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