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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.

An alley that can be traced all the way back to Tudor London, with a famously enigmatic stone plaque on one wall.

St Paul's Cathedral has decided to allow photography within the building, overturning a ban that was often surreptitiously ignored anyway.

This is London's shortest alley, and also one that you can't actually walk down any more as modern gates replicate a medieval barrier.

An annual tradition is being continued this Christmas, with an uplifting rendition of Handel’s Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral.

Ordinarily, visitors to St Paul’s Cathedral during the day are not supposed to take photos, but for five evenings, the Cathedral is opening its doors to photographers.

Earlier this week, the bells of St Pauls' were removed from the Cathedral, and sent back to their makers for repairs.

These massive stainless steel sculptural artworks near St Paul's Cathedral are both art and function - for they are also ventilation shafts for an electricity substation in the basement underneath.

A rather fine pocket park in the City of London that is not managed by the City of London. And unlike other parks, it doesn't have a name.

The bells of St Paul's Cathedral are to be removed later this month for restoration work, meaning that the Cathedral's celebratory bells will fall silent until late next year.

Hidden away from tourists on a side street, what is the former St Paul's Cathedral choir school makes for a most unusual Youth Hostel today.

A delightful little courtyard can be found hidden away in the small maze of streets just to the south side of St Paul's Cathedral.

An annual tradition is being continued this Christmas, with an uplifting rendition of Handel’s Messiah in St Paul’s Cathedral.

Ordinarily, visitors to St Paul's Cathedral during the day are not supposed to take photos, but for seven evenings, the Cathedral is opening its doors to photographers.

Over the years there have been many attempts to build a bridge across the Thames near St Paul's Cathedral, and this is the story of one of them.