The City of London has announced plans to part pedestrianise Bank junction following on from previous works which substantially reduced road traffic in the area.
Plans by the City of London to move its three historic markets to a single site in Dagenham Dock took a step forward last night after Barking and Dagenham council approved planning permission for the new market building.
The City of London has a number of grand Livery Halls dotted around the Square Mile, and three of them are going to be open for lunches this summer.
This is an entirely new alley for London, but owes some of its existence to a Tudor prison and a Victorian charity.
This alley just behind the Bank of England starts off with a narrow covered entrance but opens up to a wide passageway.
Although a lot of pandemic recovery talk about the City of London has focused on the empty offices and unsold sandwiches in corner shops, the city also has a large creative sector that’s been badly hit as well.
This charming cobbled* and sloped passageway looks like it’s been here for centuries, but in fact, may be barely 30 years old.
The City of London is opening a design competition for a 21st-century Police Box to be placed around the Square Mile.
A covered alley running off Cornhill in the city that was once the home to the King’s official weights.
This year marks the 700th anniversary of London’s Leadenhall Market, the ornate market in the City of London.
Updated concept images of the plans to revamp Smithfield markets have been shown off by the City of London.
This is a surprisingly large open space right in the heart of the City that you would only discover by passing through covered arches.
Part of an underground car park in the City of London is to be turned into a space for delivery services by bicycle around the City of London.
The tallest building in the City of London, 22 Bishopsgate has reached the stage of “practical completion”, and is starting to be fitted out for tenants.
This alley is a lingering remnant of a much longer passage that used to run all the way up to Fleet Street.
This is a chaming litle cobbled courtyard next to the Walkie Talkie skyscraper, that contains one of the few surviving Georgian buildings in the City of London.
This is a very modern looking, and very modern existing alley that can be found opposite the former NatWest Tower, now Tower 42.
A narrow lane near Cannon Street that’s the site of a church destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
This Saturday’s Lord Mayor’s show would normally be a huge event on the streets of London, with large numbers of floats and people marching, but it won’t be like that this week, and it never used to be like that either.
This delightfully narrow alley with a Victorian tiled and arched entrance and a rare surviving ancient wall can be found in a quiet cluster of streets just moments from busy London Wall.
Plans to turn the historic Grade 1 listed Custom House building that sits next to the Thames and Tower of London into a hotel have been submitted to the City of London.
Plans have been shown off for another skyscraper to sit next to the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
This is a convenient passage that links Fetter Lane and Chancery Lane in the city, and is likely to date from the early urban development of the area.
This is a side alley that includes an old church, a Roman palace, and enough stucco carving to fill a small mansion house.
