I knew Mr Turk from Cookham who was involved with the Swan Upping for many years. There are still Turks involved in the Thames, as I saw a family business on the banks of the Rive ...

At least once each Summer, I direct my steps eastwards from Spitalfields along the Mile End Rd towards Bow Cemetery, one of the “Magnificent Seven” created by act of Parliament in 1832 as the growing ...

I cycled along the River Lea to Waltham Abbey. On my approach, even from the riverbank, I could see the majestic tower rising over the water meadows as the Abbey has done for the past thousand years, ...

Last summer, I joined the maiden voyage of the newly-restored Thames Sailing Barge Raybel. This summer you can enjoy a trip on the Raybel too. Click here to book tickets for Raybel For the past few ...

Jack Hanlon gives a rare insight into the fascinating lost world of the Smithfield Meat Trades Institute… The correct way to ...

One house in Fournier St has wallpapers dating from 1690 until 1960. This oldest piece of wallpaper was already thirty years old when it was pasted onto the walls of the new house built by joiner ...

St Mary Rotherhithe Free School founded 1613. To be candid, there is not a lot left of old Rotherhithe – yet what remains is still powerfully evocative of th ...