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Nostalgia
Nostalgia
The East London street where it feels like you've gone back in time
Days out
There's even a pub owned by Sir Ian McKellen on the street
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The forgotten London skyscraper than was torn down 1 year after it was built
BBC
The Skylon was built in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain under the post war Labour government and was the tallest structure in London at the time
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Test your VE Day knowledge with our quiz as 79th anniversary arrives
Second World War
It was one of London's biggest ever parties
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Abandoned London Underground station has been closed for nearly 100 years but you can still go in
London Underground
Apart from its brief stint as a war bunker, the Tube station in Mayfair has sat empty and idle for almost a century
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Heathrow Airport Terminal 1 does exist but you can't fly from there - here's what it's used for
Heathrow Airport
Most people won't know that it's essential to the smooth running of the airport
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Map shows incredible plan to make London more like New York after Great Fire
London History
London very nearly resembled New York
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The man who first proposed the London Underground’s original plan that everyone thought was stupid
London History
Believe it or not, congestion was a massive problem in the 1800s, as it remains today, with the caveat that it became a core inspiration to the invention of the Tube network
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Henry VIII's forgotten palace right next to what is now a London Underground station
London History
You're now more likely to find a brand meeting about soap taking place there
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The East London Victorian slum that is now a peaceful garden built from the rubble
London's hidden secrets
Arnold Circus was also one of London's first council estates
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The secret ‘party den’ bar and games room built in a former London Underground air raid shelter
London Underground
It had claim to be the UK's deepest licenced bar and games room
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The Tube station with something unique not found anywhere else on the London Underground
London Underground
It's not often a Tube station manages to break the mould
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Croydon's haunted pub where customers 'went in and never came back' and 'witch boiled bones'
London Stories
The ghost was said to have murdered travellers who visited the inn and boiled their bones in a pot
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The London Underground's first ever escalators that turned out to be a 'total disaster'
London Underground
In 1988, the crumpled rusty remains of this lost engineering experiment were found buried at the bottom of a lift shaft
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What happened to the lost orange, white and stripy lines that disappeared from the Tube map
London Underground
It's amazing to see how much our beloved map has changed in 30 years
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The 'lost' London Underground station that took commuters directly onto a golf course
London Underground
Have you ever heard of a station built so people could play golf?
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The tiny little ledge near Shakespeare's Globe that holds hundreds of years of history - and you'd probably miss it if you weren't looking
London History
It's the last remaining object of its kind in London
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The 'cursed' River Thames island that makes everything go wrong
London History
It has been plagued by disaster for decades (contains an affiliate link)
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The abandoned tunnels below Shepherds Bush where you can spy on unsuspecting commuters
London History
The tunnels were closed a century ago and are an incredible piece of London history
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A day in the life of Tower of London's Ravenmaster who's as West Ham as they come
London's hidden secrets
Michael 'Barney' Chandler runs a team of five people tasked with taking care of Jubilee, Harris, Poppy, Georgie, Edgar, Branwen and Rex - the tower's famous ravens
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The disaster that befell the original Lambeth Bridge meaning it had to be torn down
London History
The crossing has been used for nearly 700 years but the original bridge did not end well
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The history of London's 250-year-old green huts that you need to pass an exam to enter
London History
The huts, dotted across London, have now all been listed as protected buildings
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Inside beautiful hidden Victorian masterpiece of engineering that stopped London smelling like poo
London's hidden secrets
Crossness Pumping Station first opened in response to ‘The Great Stink’ of 1858
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Beautiful red London Waterloo building has a morbid past as 'gateway to the afterlife'
London's hidden secrets
It's a hidden and very human part of London's history
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The abandoned London Underground station you can still see at Westfield White City
London Underground
The remains of the long-abandoned station called Wood Lane are still visible
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Tom Cruise's daughter Bella's life in Croydon after 'turning down his £342k-a-month penthouse'
Tom Cruise's daughter Bella Kidman Cruise has been living in Croydon, South London, in recent years with her British husband Max Parker and their pet reptile
British Airways passengers 'disgusted' as couple 'have sex' on Heathrow flight with child running past
British Airways
The couple were reportedly 'constantly at it' for 20 minutes on the short 7.28am flight to Dublin
Live: Boy 14, stabbed in Limehouse near DLR statin
Metropolitan Police
No one has been arrested yet
Call the Midwife series 14 air date, cast, plot and photos so far as Helen George 'confirms' return
Call the Midwife
The BBC period drama has already started filming new scenes
Man hit by car in Wood Green crash killed with police arresting 4 men
Traffic and Travel
The four men are all believed to have been in the car in the time of the crash on The Roundway
M25
Live M25 traffic updates: Lorry fuel spillage partly shuts busy road near Croydon
Several London buses have been diverted
London's first McDonald's with ashtrays on every table and burgers for 37p
McDonald's
The first ever McDonald's in the UK opened in Woolwich, South East London, in 1974 - and one man who worked there has shared his memories of the 'dystopian nightmare'
Only Fools and Horses' Gwyneth Strong's life with famous EastEnders star husband
EastEnders
Gwyneth Strong is best known for playing Cassandra Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, but the actress is also married to a soap star who has appeared in EastEnders
Brilliant old photos show London Eye hanging directly over boats on the River Thames
British Airways
The London Eye is one of the most iconic landmarks, but many people don't know the incredible story of how it was built
Tom Cruise's daughter Bella's life in Croydon after 'turning down his £342k-a-month penthouse'
Croydon
Tom Cruise's daughter Bella Kidman Cruise has been living in Croydon, South London, in recent years with her British husband Max Parker and their pet reptile
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New Northern Lights alert for England on Sunday, May 12 - and how to get phone notifications
Scientist group AuroraWatch UK issued a yellow alert on Sunday morning (May 12) saying the phenomenon could be visible with the eye in some areas and with camera equipment more widely.
Tom Cruise's daughter Bella's life in Croydon after 'turning down his £342k-a-month penthouse'
Croydon
Tom Cruise's daughter Bella Kidman Cruise has been living in Croydon, South London, in recent years with her British husband Max Parker and their pet reptile
London's narrowest street with a secret club and brilliant pub at the end
Days out
The alleyway is easily accessible from the street, but best photographed during the daytime - at night it gets a lot more busy.
British Airways passengers 'disgusted' as couple 'have sex' on Heathrow flight with child running past
British Airways
The couple were reportedly 'constantly at it' for 20 minutes on the short 7.28am flight to Dublin
The seaside town that used to be on the London Underground
London Underground
Southend-on-Sea in Essex was once a popular tourist destination and even had a tube station - and now it's set to become one of the most valuable areas in the UK
M25
Live M25 traffic updates: Lorry fuel spillage partly shuts busy road near Croydon
Several London buses have been diverted
London's first McDonald's with ashtrays on every table and burgers for 37p
McDonald's
The first ever McDonald's in the UK opened in Woolwich, South East London, in 1974 - and one man who worked there has shared his memories of the 'dystopian nightmare'
The beautiful city that's 1 of UK's smallest but also 1 of its best places to live
Days out
Wells in Somerset was named among the best places to move to by The Sunday Times back in 2020 - and it's easy to see why
Only Fools and Horses' Gwyneth Strong's life with famous EastEnders star husband
EastEnders
Gwyneth Strong is best known for playing Cassandra Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, but the actress is also married to a soap star who has appeared in EastEnders
Brilliant old photos show London Eye hanging directly over boats on the River Thames
British Airways
The London Eye is one of the most iconic landmarks, but many people don't know the incredible story of how it was built