Moon on a Shard.

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There is. Where the Eurostar ticket office used to be.

Clouds behind the City skyline at dusk.

The City of London, looking east from Waterloo bridge.

Live in the Waterloo & South Bank ward of Lambeth Council?

Hustings take place at St John's Waterloo this evening #LE2026 #LambethDecides

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Southwark Cathedral’s Hodge the cat this morning

View from Elephant & Castle railway station platform 1
- April 2024
- April 2025
- April 2026

Today - open day at Dockhead fire station, Bermondsey www.london-fire.gov.uk/community/so...

Permission has now been granted by Southwark Councjl for Tower Bridge to fly the Pride flag during June. Elsewhere, the council has closed a planning enforcement complaint about the Maudsley Hospital’s use of the Pride flag

Off to a concert at the Southbank tonight and never seen this view before

Image of London looking West at sunset taken from the air, showing the lights of tower bridge in the foreground and the Thames and the lights of the city beyond.

Flew into London last night and my daughter took this spectacular picture.

Office fire - London Bridge Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters were called to a fire at an office block on Hays Lane in London Bridge.

700 people were evacuated from their offices at London Bridge yesterday due to a lithium-ion laptop battery fire www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/20... (incidentally Cottons Lane has a plaque recording the 1861 death of fire chief James Braidwood in the Great Fire of Tooley Street)

Sunderland football fan accused of killing Warwickshire man with one punch Michael Edwards died in hospital four days after the incident in London, a court hears.

In the early hours of 13 September, MacLeod was said to have delivered "a forceful punch" to Michael Edwards, from Warwickshire, outside a shop on Borough High Street.

Edwards died in hospital four days later. MacLeod denies manslaughter.

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Scenes from this evening's commute on London's cycleway #C6 #CS6 south of Blackfriars Bridge ... getting silly now, esp 1752 🙃

(TfL traffic vids looking towards Blackfriars Bridge 1723-1930 today as folk cycle home on the C6 cycle track left of screen, and queue to cross the Union St junction)

The developer converting the Westminster Tower next to Lambeth Bridge into luxury flats has partnered with an estate agent based in Miami to help sell the homes world.einnews.com/pr_news/9056...

City Bridge Foundation | Bridge works and closures Upcoming bridge works and closures at Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Southwark Bridge, Millennium Bridge & Blackfriars Bridge

Tower Bridge will be closed for routine, overnight maintenance on the next five nights (10pm-5am). There will be no access for pedestrians or traffic. The closest alternative crossing is London Bridge. www.citybridgefoundation.org.uk/what-we-do/b...

The Blue Maid in Borough High Street is today celebrating the first anniversary of its reopening. Draught beers will be £5 all day, including a special edition ‘Maid of Borough’ Birthday Pale Ale from UnBarred Brewery of Brighton (+ free beer if you turn up in a mermaid costume)

London Borough Yards development handed to lender amid struggle to find tenants Scheme’s difficulties signal fallout from pandemic is still being felt in real estate sector

London Borough Yards development handed to lender amid struggle to find tenants ft.trib.al/TnfzWHD

Sayer Street, Elephant and Castle... 3 bed flat to rent - £9,000 pcm (£2,077 pw) Foxtons - Elephant & Castle present this 3 bedroom flat to rent in Sayer Street, Elephant and Castle, London, SE17

£9,000 a month to rent a penthouse at Elephant Park www.onthemarket.com/details/1916...

My next online talk celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Festival of Britain. I'll be looking at how the #seaside was represented at the South Bank and how design there, in its turn, influenced the look of resorts in the 1950s and 60s
Book your ticket at www.ticketsource.com/kathryn-ferry

Illustrated poster for inQ! London's Queer Comic Fair. At the top, the text says "London's Queer Comics Fair is Back" There is a circle on the top-right corner that says "Free Entry" in it. The image has a person with their back us, wearing a leather jacket. The leather jacket has inclusive, LGBTQ+ and progressive patches on the sleeves. On the back of the jacket it has the text "26 + 27 Sept 2026. inQ! London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. 60-62 Hopton St. SE1 9JH. 10:30am to 5:30pm. The person is reading a comic. In the background is the London landscape.

London’s Queer Comic Fair is back with a WHOLE WEEKEND of queer comics joy this September 26th and 27th 2026. Double the comic fair fun!

Entry is FREE. We’re family friendly so bring all your friends. Tell everyone! Get excited! inQ! is BACK!

[Poster by the brilliant @kitsuneart.bsky.social]

Don’t miss this brilliant lineup of live comedy in a lovely Borough boozer!!Thursday 2nd April 2026 Comedy at The Roebuck Borough SE1 4YG :  Mark Thomas ( Preview/WIP), Ily Hamdia, Jodi Wheeler , Verity Sharpe Lucas Jones Ho & MC Sion James
Snap up Tickets here : www.jokepit.com/e/59398

'London Bridge landlord lied his dad had died to scam my deposit' The Met Police says it is investigating a number of suspected frauds in relation to flat rental.

'London Bridge landlord lied his dad had died to scam my deposit'
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London's plummeting house prices laid bare Rising interest rates and sky-high stamp duty bills are being blamed for driving away super-rich property owners from London.

"An apartment in Southwark bought for £2.4 million in 2017 fell to £1.8 million when it was sold in July 2025."
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CCTV image released following sexual assault – Central London Officers investigating a sexual assault on board a train have released this image in connection.

BTP appeal:

"At around 9.40pm on Tuesday 10 March a man boarded a train at Blackfriars station and sat next to a woman. The man then sexually assaulted the woman.

"The man then left the service at London Bridge."

www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/new...

Annie Wheeler

My 3 x Great Grandmother

Part One – Annie’s Childhood

Lower Fore Street, Lambeth, London, c1860. Annie lived in Lower Fore Street throughout her childhood. She was three when this picture was taken, and it’s possible that she is one of the children in the background.

A pic of London’s skyline, with the evening sun pouring through some grey clouds, illuminating the Shard and reflecting off the river Thames.

📸 The skyline is looking decidedly biblical this evening!

Crane operation in Pearman Street (Waterloo) this week - road closure

Today's the final day to tell Southwark Council how bus services between London Bridge and Elephant & Castle (and beyond) could be improved engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...

The plans involved a pier running from Westminster to London Bridge with pubs, cinemas and bandstands to inject life into Bankside and “attract the Londoner at present reluctant to make the jump over the Thames” (THREAD)

Unbuilt plans for the redevelopment of London’s South Bank, as featured in Gordon Cullen’s Townscape book from 1961, which I picked up and shared last weekend (THREAD)