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This is not Paddington Station

Does this look like Paddington Station to you?

Giant white crosses to mark World War 1

As part of St Paul's Cathedral's commemoration to the Great War of 1914-18, two white cruciform sculptures, each over six metres high have been installed at the head of the nave.

What was the mystery obelisk alongside the Thames?

Around 1750, Canaletto painted a scene of London from Somerset House towards Westminster. It shows all the obvious things you would expect to see...

Street art under a railway bridge near Brixton

There is a railway line that passes through residential streets in South London and at one point leaves a low lying bridge over a pedestrian passageway -- and that passage is an art gallery.

A tube map of “the internet”

It seems that everything can at some point be reduced to a variant of the tube map and then posted onto the internet for all to see. But what about the internet as a tube map on the internet?

Another attempt to reform the Sunday trading laws

There is a campaign brewing to reform the Sunday trading laws and scrap the 6-hour maximum that large stores can be open for on the day.

London’s weekly railway news #40

A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news...

London Tube Station Appears in Steampunk-Style Computer Game

Some sort of computer game is being released based in Victorian London that features some pretty stunning images of the city, and the London Underground stations.

Le Morte d’Bob Crow

The sudden and totally unexpected death of a major and highly controversial figure is always a shock and a moment for reflection on the impact of their passing.

Paddington Bear movie trailer released

A preview trailer has been released of the forthcoming Paddington Bear movie, with some lovely -- and suspiciously clean footage of Paddington Station.

Praise for the new SouthBank Centre Website

Readers with very good memories may recall that just over a year ago, I wrote a polemic about how the SouthBank Centre's website had redesigned its listings page in a way that made them essentially useless.

We’ve won an award!

Like lots of conferences, baubles are handed out at the end to winners of various criteria - best new thing, best old thing, best innovative thing, best etc things.

Dante’s Modern Inferno at Leicester Square

If Dante were alive today, I would have found his muse in a multi-layer confection of artificial colours and smells designed to deafen the senses into mute submission.

When PR goes badly wrong

There is a considerable amount of fuss being generated at the moment in PR and Media land about an attempt by a PR firm to ensure it gets tons of coverage this evening at a music awards ceremony.

How the Motor Car Reshaped English Architecture

A new exhibition has opened inside the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park that looks at how the architecture associated with the motor car changed the landscape.

Your last chance to visit the Trocadero

You have but a single week left to visit what remains of the decaying hulk that is the Trocodero center in London's West End.

See a Crossrail tunnel boring machine made from Lego

There is a modern rule that any large engineering project has to involve Lego at some point, and Crossrail have finally complied with Regulation 17 subclause 13a of the Lego Engineering Act 2008.

Send robots to look at British art

Soon the Tate Britain will let four remotely controlled robots roam around their art galleries, controlled by people at home with computers, so that the remote voyeur can look at the art from their sofa.

Sapphire and Steel have been assigned

I was reminded of a rather excellent TV series earlier today when writing a bit of a silly headline at the day job and thought it's about time I wrote about the series that inspired the headline.

Fantasy Architecture – Recreating the Frost Fairs

The last frost fair took place 200 years ago about nowish -- if you ignore the recent frost fairs on the southbank, which involved neither frost, nor very much fair to be frank.

A few random thoughts….

A few random thoughts….

Important News About Bus Route 9

TfL is proposing to remove the heritage buses from the route this coming July.

Why does Google News want to do the Time Warp?

It's astounding; Time is fleeting; Madness takes its toll. But listen closely...

A few random thoughts….

A few random thoughts....