Cities, towns and mountains
Designed in 1881 by Sir Horace Jones (also the architect of Billingsgate and Smithfield Markets), Leadenhall Market in the City of London is a wonderful piece of architecture, and it …
Christmas lights at London’s delightful Leadenhall Market Read More
With the rebranded and corporatised Cardiff City no longer on my sporting agenda, we travelled to Newport on a wet and cold Boxing Day afternoon to watch the home team take on Plymouth …
Newport County sweep aside Plymouth Argyle on a dark and miserable Boxing Day afternoon Read More
Today hasn’t exactly gone to plan. I’d booked myself on the 11.25 train out of Cardiff Central, confident that I’d be back in London in time to scoot across town and …
Making the best of the rail chaos: a full refund and an interesting chat with a 125 driver Read More
Here’s a selection of photos taken around central London in the first two weeks of December, 2014, Above, a nattily dressed Maplin & Webb worker on Old Bond Street takes …
London in December: three chimneys at Battersea, Thames night views, parks and Christmas lights Read More
And so another wonderful chunk of Soho’s rich musical history is set to disappear forever, with the news that the legendary 12 Bar Club in Denmark Street in central London …
Soho’s legendary 12 Bar Club to close in January 2015 Read More
I was out and about in Brighton over the weekend, heading to the south coast to watch the mighty Dulwich Hamlet beat nearby Peaceheaven FC in a non-league football game. The …
Brighton in winter: street scenes, pier, architecture, graffiti and hardy paddlers Read More
It’s heartbreaking to see the skeletal remains of the once-grand Brighton West Pier slowly rusting into the English Channel.
Brighton’s West Pier in 2014 – Victorian elegance rusts into the sea Read More
I sometimes enjoy a bit of street theatre and impromptu dance, and it was fun to see these guys bursting into a NYC subway train and start acrobatically spinning around the carriage. …
Don’t look now, but there’s dancers suspended from the subway roof: New York scenes Read More
Here’s a scene from my visit to Berlin earlier this year, showing a couple sat in front of an extravagant fountain in the centre of the city. The photo was …
Photo of the day: By the Berlin fountain Read More
December is still several days away, but the Christmas frenzy is already in full flow around central London, as the shop tills start to ring out their seasonal fanfare. The …
An early Christmas London walk – baubles, gas lamps, ice rink, South Bank and ICA art launch Read More
My trip to see Dulwich Hamlet play Harrow Borough on Saturday took me through Northolt Park, a singularly characterless suburb of north west London. It didn’t help that the rain …
A depressing trudge in the rain around Northolt Park, north-west London Read More
In line with the fan-run, no-budget, slightly ramshackle ethos, there’s often plenty of home-made and hand painted signs to be found around the grounds of lower league football teams. At …
The hand-painted and hand made signs of Harrow Borough FC, north London Read More
Autumn has long been one of my favourite seasons, second only to a proper winter with lashings of lovely snow and sharp, crisp, bright blue cloudless mornings.
The reds and browns of a beautiful autumn in London Read More
Looking like something straight out of the 1970s is the offensive piece of advertising by estate agents Strutt & Parker, as seen on the London Underground today. (UPDATE 21st Nov: The company …
“Utterly moronic racist nonsense” – advertising by Notting Hill estate agents Strutt & Parker – UPDATE Read More
I was waiting on the platform at Vauxhall station on Saturday afternoon, when I noticed this woman smiling at me from a train that had just pulled in. I instinctively …
The weird smiling face from the Vauxhall train carriage Read More
Yesterday, I travelled to Surrey to watch Dulwich Hamlet take on the Metropolitan Police FC at their East Molesey ground. The game wasn’t that great – Hamlet lost 2-0 – but there were some dramatic scenes …
Ghostly football – players hunt the ball in the swirling mists of Surrey Read More
I’m really saddened to hear that London is to lose another fine live music venue, with the Buffalo Bar in Highbury and Islington announcing that it will be hosting its …
London’s Buffalo Bar to close, with final event on New Year’s Eve 2014 Read More
Late Saturday afternoon, I went for a hangover-clearing autumnal stroll through central London, taking in two parks and stopping off for some art. I started off at Green Park tube …
An autumnal London walk at dusk – Green Park, St James’s park, National Gallery and Oxford Street Read More
One of the best places to be in East London after an evening enjoying an ample selection of the finest ales has to be Brick Lane, home of the freshly …
The late night bagel stores of Brick Lane, east London Read More
I first visited this little cafe back in December 2011, and it’s great to see that business is thriving and that it’s lost none of its down-to-earth charm.
An afternoon at the Electric Elephant Cafe, Crampton Street, south London Read More
Last night I went along to the premises of Maggs Bros Ltd in Berkeley Square for the launch of an intriguing book about the English writer and eccentric, Frederick Rolfe.
The Corvo Cult book launch at Maggs Bros in Berkeley Square, London Read More
I really enjoyed last year’s art show in the Cavendish Square underground car park, so I made sure I got along to the new show in the same venue, this …
London car park artshow – We Could Not Agree at the Q Park, Cavendish Square Read More
New data released by the Met Office confirms what every long suffering Cardiffian already knows – it’s the wettest city in Britain.
It’s official – Cardiff is the wettest city in Britain, followed by Glasgow and Preston Read More
A host of yellow paper umbrellas appeared outside the offices of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London today, as supporters held a rally in solidarity with the …
Pro-democracy supporters rally outside Hong Kong trade office in London – photos Read More
It’s taken me a while to post these up (sorry!) but I came across this busy record fair in the East River State Park (90 Kent Ave. at North 7th St) …
Vinyl galore at the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair, Williamsburg, New York Read More
It may be 70 days away, but the Big Christmas Cash In has already started in London’s West End, with several stores putting out their festival baubles.
Baubles in October – the big Christmas cash-in kicks off in central London Read More
Currently turning heads in Covent Garden is this remarkable structure by the artist and designer Alex Chinneck.
In photos: the amazing floating piazza at Covent Garden, as created by Alex Chinneck Read More
I first visited the Building Centre back in 2011 and was suitably impressed by the amazing Pipers 1:1500 scale model of London which dominates the ground floor.
London in miniature: the fabulous scale model at the Building Centre Read More
On the weekend, I took a trip out to Canvey Island, a reclaimed island in the Thames estuary in the south-east of England. I was there to watch the mighty Dulwich Hamlet …
Canvey Island photos – sea wall murals, Concord Beach, a Dr Feelgood bench, sea views and racism Read More
Billed as the “UK’s biggest ever Gothic exhibition, “Terror and Wonder, the Gothic Imagination” opens today at the British Library in central London. Displaying two hundred rare objects, the exhibition traces 250 years of the …
Terror and Wonder, the Gothic Imagination at the British Library, London Read More