Few churches in London, or anywhere I would imagine, carry such a grim image over their entrance as St Olave's in Hart Street. Look up and you are greeted with not a very cheerful threesome of skulls gazing down at you; their hollow eye sockets sending a chilling...

Everyone knows the cry ‘off with his head’ but how many people visiting the Tower of London fail to spot the Tower’s most notorious execution site just across the road in a small sectioned off area within the now pleasant Trinity Gardens. In fact, comparatively few...

Anyone arriving at Tower Hill Station to visit the Tower of London might be puzzled to see a statue of a Roman Emperor next to be what appears to be the remains of an old stone wall. The wall is more easily explained. It is part of the remains of a fortified Wall that...

A British heroine in every sense of the word and rightly deserving a place near Trafalgar Square facing the National Portrait Gallery. Edith Cavell was a British nurse stationed in Belgium during WW1 and was responsible for not only saving lives from both sides of the...

Feels like you've stepped back in time when you drive down this street which was built during the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). As most of London's historic architecture can be dated to the later Georgian and Victorian periods, Queen Anne's Gate has an almost 'olde...

Another treasure from Tudor times, there is a sign on the fascia saying it was built in 1567, making it the oldest shop in London. Known to have been visited by Charles Dickens who lived nearby, it was thought to be the inspiration for his novel The Old Curiosity...

This Huguenot Church, originally given a Royal Charter in 1550, bares testament to the large French Protestant community that settled in Soho in the late 17th century. French Protestants fled to England when in 1685, they were denied permission to practice their faith...

An essential part of any 'Secret London' tour is this unusual and touching memorial tucked away in Postman's Park, just off King Edward Street in the City. It was the brainchild of G F Watts, an English painter and sculptor, who came up with the idea of honouring...

Take yourself back 150 years when Whitechapel in East London would have been home to Jewish immigrants escaping religious persecution and economic hardship in eastern Europe. Thousands would have crammed into ghettos in the area and poverty and malnutrition were rife....