This stunning neoclassical Art Deco, Grade II listed building with its gorgeous curved facade, is best viewed from Blackfriars Bridge and is one of my favourite commercial buildings in the city. It stands on the site of Bridewell Palace, a former residence of Henry...

All I can say is go check out this tiny little square, the smallest in London, just off St James Street. It's really what London does best: hidden gems off busy thoroughfares. There are still original gaslights down here, which would have borne witness to all kinds of...

I have always had a fondness for Clerkenwell and for good reason too - there's so much history here. St John's Gate was originally the entrance to the Knights of St John, a monastic order set up during the Crusades to care for the ill on their travels to the Holy...

A nice feature of Mayfair are the Victorian shopping arcades. They were built in the 19th century for refined ladies to go shopping without getting their shoes dirty. In those days the streets were covered in horse dung and dog muck and there were no pavements to...

Cheyne Walk seems on the face of it a surprising place to see this striking statue of Sir Thomas More, the Chancellor who dared to defy Henry VIII in his plan to marry Anne Boleyn, and paid the ultimate price. Erected in 1969, it marks the fact that More was a Chelsea...

This quirky little pub sits on the corner of Queen Victoria Street and New Bridge Street and always makes me smile when I drive past. The Art Nouveau wedge shaped building occupies the site of the old Blackfriars Dominican Friary, which stood here from 1217 to 1538....

The last of London's galleried pubs, they don't come more historic than the George Inn. Originally there would have been numerous coaching Inns along Borough High Street, with travellers stopping on their way to the City to water their horses and get a bed for the...

Gatehouses would have been all the rage in medieval England and this Gatehouse, a rare combination of a 13th century stone arch topped with a 16th century Tudor structure, is undoubtedly one of London's best examples. Amazingly, this hybrid gateway to St Bartholomew's...

This bronze sculpture of the two wartime allied leaders was erected in Bond Street in 1995, on the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The two men were very different in many ways. Churchill a former soldier and staunch Conservative while...