This unsigned illustration comes from an Ernest Nister illustrated children’s book, The Scrapbook of Trains (c.1900). An atmospheric renderi...

When the profession of architect emerged in the Western tradition, typical clients were drawn from the ranks of Dukes, Princes, Sovereigns, ...

Opened in 1999 as part of the Jubilee Line Extension (JLE) to Stratford, Southwark has a unique design thanks to the physical constraints o...

It’s our very own National Theatre of Cruelty, an antiquated forum of futility.  On one side the benches are occupied by the defenders of pr...

Not the most celebrated of London stations.  There are no books that tell the story of Charing Cross station and there is no record of it se...

Thanks to German printing technology, this is an unusually well produced postcard with a detailed image of London buses posed outside the Ba...

There’s no Regent Circus on today’s map of London but, according to Hermione Hobhouse in her History of Regent Street the intersection with...

London’s south facing railway termini have never quite achieved the sense of occasion found in those that face east, west and south.  Victor...