Marylebone Makeover: Rain gardens to flourish in former pedestrian subway

One of London’s biggest sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) is about to be built in the derelict pedestrian subway under the Marylebone flyover.

Visiting the Royal Academy of Music’s museum

A museum right in the centre of London is one you'd expect to be open a lot and packed with visitors - but there's a rather specialised one that's only open a few hours a week.

London’s Public Art: There and Now, Westminster Magistrates’ Court

If you walk past Westminster Magistrates' Court in Marylebone, you might notice a complex work of art on the wall reminiscent of steampunk designs.

Hunt for hand-written notes by Andy Leek in Marylebone this October

An art trail has popped up in Marylebone, all featuring messages dotted around the area.

London’s Alleys: Spring Mews, W1

This is a narrow passage in Marylebone that once led to horse stables for the rich folk who lived here and is now more of a back access for a replacement mansion block

London’s Alleys: Jacob’s Well Mews, W1

This is a mixed mews near Oxford Street and hidden behind a 1970s office block that boasts some very odd architecture, and some Wombles.

London’s Alleys: Kendall Place, W1

This is an alley that passes through a block to the north of Oxford Street, and half of the block is owned by a single family.

The unexpected interior of Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone

Not far from Marylebone can be found an austere looking church building, that has a surprisingly light and open interior.

London’s Alleys: Virgil Place, W1

This is a short alley in Marylebone that used to be a lot longer and lead to lots of terraced housing that no longer exists.

London’s Alleys: Oldbury Place, W1

This is a quiet set of low-rise mews houses and offices that can be found just off bustling Marylebone.

London’s Alleys: Durweston Mews, W1

This is a small back of flats courtyard mews that can be found just around the corner from Baker Street.

London’s Alleys: Sherlock Mews, W1

Just off Baker Street, home of a famous detective can be found a small cobbled street, Sherlock Mews, but which came first, the man or the mews?

In Marylebone, a large stone plaque celebrates Charles Dickens

Normally, buildings occupied by someone famous get a small blue plaque, but when you're Charles Dickens, you get a huge stone mural instead.

London’s Pocket Parks: The Memorial Garden of Rest, W1

This pocket park is 70 years old this year, and was created on the site of a former church that stood next to Marylebone High Street.

Steel artwork on the corner of Marylebone Lane & Wigmore Street

At the junction of Wigmore Street and Marylebone Lane is a striking piece of modern art hanging within the frame of a new office block.

Blue Plaque for one of Britain’s first black British medical consultants

One of Britain’s first black British consultants, the pioneering neurologist James Samuel Risien Russell has been commemorated with an English Heritage London blue plaque.

London Underground plans upgrade for Marylebone tube station

London Underground is planning to partially demolish its tube station entrance within Marylebone station in order to add a third escalator and expand the number to ticket gates it has.

Giant “Ice House” discovered under the streets of Marylebone

A long-lost Ice House has been uncovered during building works under the Regent's Crescent in Marylebone.

Pay a visit to the British Dental Museum in central London

Yes, all about teeth and toothache and pulling teeth and filling teeth and polishing teeth.

Today’s the 50th anniversary of the Marylebone Flyover

A large concrete and steel leviathan is marking the the 50th anniversary of slicing a community in half. The Marylebone Flyover was officially opened on this day in 1967.

Trees and birds shine through the grime under the Marylebone Flyover

A small forest of trees and woodland animals have appeared under the polluted and noisy Marylebone Flyover, as a work of art.

It’s the 100th anniversary of Marylebone Tube Station

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of Marylebone tube station - but last month also marked the 110th anniversary of the opening of Marylebone tube station.

Find the Tyburn Stone

A macabre relic of mass murder can be found sitting, almost unnoticed in the posh entrance of a London hotel.

The gothic masterpiece concealed in Marylebone

Squashed in between buildings on a site next to the posh shopping area of Marylebone sits a surprisingly large and very gothic inspired church.