Blue, brown, green and now pink. There are many commemorative plaque schemes across London. The first such plaques were put up in 1867 by the Royal Society of Arts (RSA): one to Lord Byron, the other to Napoleon III. Only Napoleon’s survives. You can find it on King Street, SW1. Over the next 35 years […]
It was back in June 2021 that Sadiq Khan declared a “retrofit revolution” aimed at making London’s homes and workplaces, which between them contribute some 75 per cent of the city’s greenhouse gas emissions, more energy efficient. But progress has been slow – “incredibly slow”, according to a critical report released last month by City […]
Fifty years ago, on 1 November 1973, a public inquiry opened into the proposed expansion of the Archway Road. It was expected to be a routine affair, but things didn’t pan out quite that way. The Archway Road is part of the A1 trunk route, which runs from the City of London through Islington, Haringey […]
Yesterday, I reported on Labour holding seats in two by-elections held on Wednesday in Haringey. Also yesterday – a Thursday, the conventional day of the week for such activities – another by-election was held in the Vauxhall ward of Lambeth. Vauxhall is densely populated, and the ward is tightly drawn around Vauxhall station. It is […]
The Conservative-led coalition government withdrew funds for rebuilding two London schools containing potentially dangerous reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) within months of coming to power in 2010, according to an investigation by the BBC. The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls in Ealing and the London Oratory School in Hammersmith & Fulham (pictured) had both been […]
The eldest of my children started her London schooling in 1988. The sixth and youngest finished hers in 2020, completing her A-levels under Covid conditions. Over those 32 years the capital’s state schools underwent phenomenal changes for the better. In recent weeks we’ve seen London’s teenagers produce yet another set of nation-leading exam results. So […]
The borough boundary between Lambeth and Southwark does not make much sense around Newington and Kennington. It runs down the middle of Kennington Park Road then zigzags around Kennington Park. The Newington ward is the area of Southwark to the east of this line, stopping short of Elephant and Castle before following the Thameslink rail […]
It has taken me far too long to write up what was said at the recent On London event entitled London: Planning, Places & People, which took place on 15 June. Part of the problem has been that the four outstanding panelists and the highly knowledgable audience said so many interesting and insightful things I […]
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