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It's Christmas Eve 1924 and while people are preparing for the festivities, the City of London is busy preparing an urgent notice - they plan to close St Paul's Cathedral.

Underneath the Guildhall art gallery is a small space that currently has three historic documents on display.

A tower on the edge of London in danger of ruin has been saved following a campaign, and will be restored and opened to the public.

For a few weeks there's a display of some of the grand building projects that defined London as a city. From ancient to very modern, lost and still standing.

Surprisingly few people know this, but it's possible to visit the City of London's magnificent Guildhall building, the oldest non-ecclesiastical stone building in the City.

On a small side street can be found one of London's few remaining cast iron pissoirs -- or mens urinals.

Although Smithfields is still a functioning meat market, about half of the Victorian buildings are derelict and this weekend is a chance to go inside.

Famous for its 18th century alms house buildings, the Geffrye Museum is currently being gutted and turned into something rather interesting.

It's early morning and shopkeepers should be preparing the day by unfurling a large canvas awning over their shop front. But they don't.

Two large important airports, but passengers landing at one might want to catch a flight at the other -- so how about a plane flight between the two?

On a grand side street in Holborn can be found an equally grand looking water pump.

Inside the grand and ancient headquarters of an arm of the Territorial Army is a small, but densely packed museum of military memorabilia.

Many a summer evening along the Thames is enlivened by the sight of a steam powered paddle-steamer passing through Tower Bridge. But not this year.

The London Transport Museum has put high resolution images of over 500 artefacts and artworks from its heritage collection onto Google's Arts & Culture platform.

A satirical image of the President who is famed for lacking a sense of humour could end up in a museum.