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 ...

In Lower Thames St, where the traffic roars past old Billingsgate Market and around the Tower of London, there is an anonymous door that leads to the past. It is a piece of spine-tingling magic. You ...

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 ...

Click here to book for my City of London Tour on 13th July and my Spitalfields Tour on 19th July Join me in sending birthday greetings to this proud centenarian today Portrait by Sarah Ainslie There ...

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 facetious ...

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 July.