Taking a black cab tour of London's theatre district, few theatres can rival the long and dramatic history of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Established in 1663 under the patronage of Charles II, it was born in the optimism of the Restoration, when public theatre...

Take a black cab along Great Queen Street and you can’t miss Freemasons’ Hall. Its clean lines, pale stone, and imposing height give it a presence that stands out even in a city full of historic buildings. But the story behind it is what makes the Hall genuinely...

Long before it became one of London’s most photographed symbols, the red telephone box began with a challenge. In the early 1920s, the General Post Office launched a national competition to create a new public call box, something practical, durable, and worthy of...

Image courtesy of Wikipedia. Photo of Ian Fleming used for the dust jacket of the first US edition of The Diamond Smugglers. Cropped photo to match crop as published on dustjacket. Dust jacket photo was credited to American photographer Erich Hartmann and carried no...

Piccadilly Circus is one of London’s best-known landmarks, recognised today for its bright advertising screens, busy streets and central location.  But its story begins far more modestly than that. The name Piccadilly comes from “piccadills,” the stiff, frilled...

Soho has always been the kind of London neighbourhood where new ideas turn up early and tucked away on one of its most historic streets about 100 years ago, a quiet technological revolution began. In the mid-1920s, John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor best known as...