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Jonathan Thomas
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London Art: St Pancras Station Decided To Play a Giant Game of Tetris in Beautiful New Art Installation and It’s Amazing
St Pancras Station, which is the hub for Eurostar trains to Paris, is a magnificent public space. We love to visit the station even when...
Fun London: There Was a Giant Pillow Fight in Trafalgar Square This Past Sunday and I bet You Wish You’d Been There
© Peter Yeung Apparently, International Pillow Fight is a thing that happens every year. And this year the flash mob took over London’s Trafalgar Square...
Great London Art: Ever Wonder What London Looked Like Before the Great Fire? Then Check out this VIew of London from Southwark Before the Great Fire of London of 1666
Editor’s Note: Due to the popularity of featuring a work of British art every week on our sister site Anglotopia, we’ve decided to do...
Video: What Would London Look Like if it was a Miniature Model? Just Like This Amazing Short Film
This is the perfect video to view on a quiet Saturday afternoon. You can do some amazing things with tilt-shift photography. It’s the method...
London Aerial Photo: Overhead Pimlico and Battersea Power Station and the River Thames by Jason Hawkes
Renowned areal photographer Jason Hawkes has posted a gorgeous picture of London and the Thames from the air on his Twitter account. This photo features the...
Halt! The Tower of London Gets a New Working Drawbridge
The Tower of London, after years of planning and construction, have unveiled a new drawbridge – the first working drawbridge on the site in over...
Fancy Visiting London Right Now? Then Check out this LIVE HD Webcam Feed of Tower Bridge
Bored at work and fancy visiting London right now? Then check out this live HD video feed that Visit London operates with a view of...
Video: London in 1927 Compared to 2013
Watch this amazing video that takes an old filmreel of London in 1927 and compares it to today. Wow! Here’s a shot from the video....
The Tube: Watch a Live Map of All The Tube Trains Under London Right Now
This is so amazing that we had to share it. Traintimes.org has taken the publicly available data from Transport for London and created a map...
The Tube: Ever Wonder What the Roundels Look Like at Every Tube Station?
For the Tube Geeks out there, if you’ve ever wondered what the roundels (what the Tube logo is called) looked like at every station on...
London Travels: Top New London Experiences from our Last Trip to Britain
Last week we wrote about our top new experiences our on recent trip to Britain but we left a lot of things out – London!...
Photo: Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus in 1949
Check out this beautiful old color picture of Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus taken in 1949. Photo was taken by a Chalmers Butterfield (what a...
Abandoned Mini Tube Line – Former London Mail Rail – Will Open to the Public
File this under ‘very cool.’ For those that don’t know, there’s a secret underground Tube line beneath London that used to be used by Royal...
London Travels: 10 Ways London Changed Since Our Last Trip
One thing that we love about London is how much it doesn’t change. There are many things that we do on every trip to London...
Travel Alert: London Buses No Longer Accepting Cash Fares from This Summer
Our number one tip for traveling to London is to get an Oyster Card (the prepaid transport card that the whole network uses – you...
New James Bond Exhibition Coming to the London Film Museum in Covent Garden
The London Film Museum (which used to be called the Moveum) in Covent Garden has closed for a few months while they prepare for an...
Houses of Parliament Launches Self-Guided Audio Tours
One of the highlights of our last trip to London was the opportunity I had to explore the Houses of Parliament on a guided tour...
London Travels: Highlights of Where We Ate During Our Time in London During Christmas
After every trip, we always share a list of the places we ate. This time around, the list is rather large because were in the...
Video: History of the London Red Phone Box
Here’s a segment about the Red Phone Box from a lovely little show that aired many years ago called Disappearing London hosted by Suggs (from...
London Travels: Indispensable London Apps You Need to Download for Your Next Trip to London That We Loved
We rely pretty heavily on our smartphones when we’re traveling in London. This can be both a good thing and a bad thing when you...
Desktop Wallpaper: London Skyline from the View from the Shard
I’ve been making my way through the 2,000 or so pictures we took during our recent trip and this one immediately jumped out as one...
Infographic: London Cyle Hire
One the latest innovations in getting around London is that you can now rent a bike city wide using the Barclay’s Cycle Hire Scheme. It’s...
Infographic: London Moving Trends
This fun infographic which highlights the trends and patterns to the way Londoners move home: where they’re moving from and to, the north-south divide &...
Travel Alert: Houses of Parliament Offering Up Tours over the Holidays for the First Time
If you’re in London over the Christmas holiday period – great news! The Houses of Parliament, which usually only offer tours on Saturdays and during...
Weird London: London Borough of Enfields Opens New Front in the War on Spitting
Apparently, spitting in public is a problem in the North London borough of Enfield. It’s enough of a problem that a new law has been...
The Tube: Coming in 2015 – A 24 Hour Tube Line – Well, on the Weekends at Least
We’ve all been there in London. One of two situations happens: You get out of a late theatre show or concert, head to the nearest...
Photo: Eros Statue in Piccadilly Circus Covered in Snow Globe
The iconic statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus has been covered in a giant snow globe for the Christmas season. The reason? Other than...
London Maps: The Converse Map of London
Lauro Fonte was commissioned by Converse to make this amazing map of London using typography and various London landmarks. Click the image above to...
Make Your Own London Tube Station Sign Message
One of the little quirks of London that’s always enjoyable are the little messages that Tube workers put on the notice boards inside the stations....
Photo: London – Then and Now
London – Then and Now. Amazing picture! I wish we still wore tophats to work! Source.