For years, we’ve stared at the late Victorian plaque at the top of this building and wondered why no-one considered its original moniker during its many recent incarnations. Until this week, that is, ...

With long embedded memories of North London’s loftiest village being home to chains like Cafe Rouge, Caffe Nero and Pain Quotidien, it’s refreshing to see that in the last few years it’s been ...

Along with the rest of the capital’s Heath walkers, both occasional and regular, I first encountered Funny Weather, NW5’s entirely delightful new coffee shop and bookstore, after a blustery circuit of ...

Camden Town from Hampstead Road, 1780. Note the words ‘A change for the worse’ at the top. Image: British Library Camden Town is famed for its pubs, from unreconstructed Irish bars to the most ...

n 1961, at the age of 27, my father, Jonathan Miller, was in a comedy show called Beyond the Fringe with Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke. With its success my father took a pile of reviews ...

Seven long years ago, we wrote a paean to the watery arrival of London Shell Co, a floating seafood restaurant at Paddington Basin helmed by a brother-sister duo, Harry and Leah Lobek (read the ...

Its story goes back to the turn of the last century - and it's been immortalised by local artists over the years Nearly one hundred and twety-five years ago, the local authority – then St Pancras – ...