Posts under ‘London Borough Challenge’

One of the many things on my List Of Cool And Weird Things To See In London (a list forever growing so long and unwieldy I've actually stopped writing stuff down) has been to go and visit Binks the Cat, which I read about in some "offbeat London" book or other (I forget which). [...]

On Sunday afternoon I went on a tour given by Owen Hatherley (who, I discovered, is neither nasty, brutal nor short, but instead rather lanky and very nice). It took us to the northern end of the Piccadilly Line, visiting the modernist stations commissioned by Frank Pick (a bit of a design hero here [...]

As I mentioned in my last post, I spent last weekend looking at more arty stuff. It started in Trafalgar Square on Saturday morning to see my friend Myk Reeve posing on the fourth plinth as part of Antony Gormley's One and Other. He was the fifth of six people that I've met to appear [...]

As regular readers of this blog know, I like exploring follies, and Sunday's Open House gave me an opportunity to explore two of them in Gunnersbury Park which are not usually open to the public. One of these is known as Princess Amelia's Bath House, a miniature castle that was probably designed and built sometime [...]

En route from The Glasshouse to (see previous post) to meet friends near London Bridge, I wandered past the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret. I usually give museums a miss during Open House by dint of the fact that they're accessible at other times, but I had some time to kill and it's been [...]

This year I seemed to spend much of Open House exploring artists' studios and workshops. I started at 1 Morocco Street, the studio (and home) of printmaker Norman Ackroyd. The first thing that you notice on entering the studio is the gigantic copperplate press which dominates the centre of the room. The second thing you [...]

My chums Sarah, Gary and Viviane share a studio in an old police station building in Deptford. They've all made comics about sheep, so they called their studio the Fleece Station. Reading stuff on Sarah's blog about settling in there was pretty interesting, but on Saturday they had a studio-warming party, which gave me an [...]

For some reason I've never walked along the Thames very far from Richmond, although I've always meant to. My original plans for Saturday having fallen through due to oversleeping, I decided to take advantage of the sunshine on Saturday and do the westward walk towards Teddington Lock.
It was pretty crowded along the riverbank at [...]

I'm still working my way through the London boroughs trying to get photos in all of them. Going through the list and seeing which ones I haven't been to yet has been quite interesting. There are the obvious exceptions, those boroughs out in the suburbs (Redbridge, Merton, Croydon, Havering etc.) which I have to make [...]

Yesterday found me pootling down to Covent Garden for the annual May Fayre and Puppet Festival, which has long been an annual tradition to visit, although I hadn't been for a few years.