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News that Twickenham Studios is to close reminds me of other now-vanished studios. At the time of its construction, close to the start of the 20th century, Twickenham was the largest studio in the UK. It made films like ‘Call of the Sea’, and steadily produced forgotten films like ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Missing Rembrandt’, [...] Once again I set off to discover whether another peculiarity suggested in old London guide books might still prove to exist in our rebuilt city. St Katherine Cree Church in Aldgate is the only church in the City of London that still rings its church bells of a Sunday morning. But there’s a stranger event [...] Once again using the guides of Peter Jackson, who wrote ‘The London Explorer’ and ‘London Is Stranger Than Fiction’ I tried finding more stuff that existed in the 1950s but which is nearly all obliterated now. One thing that’s still there is the iron-gated entrance to St Bride’s Church. The boundary wall once ran along [...] For the past three and a half years I have been posting almost every day, and this is the two thousandth edition. So today I thought we’d have something a little different. I suppose I’ve always taken London taxis a bit for granted, forgetting that the cabbies are really quite unusual people. Here’s a chat [...] The Tate Modern’s latest exhibition is arranged so that you can progress through the decades of Yayoi Kusama’s life, which have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously re-invented her style. Her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including [...] Considering how insanely crowded London can get, it always amazes me when I find myself entirely alone on a London walk. This is generally due to the route I take, but today there was no-one about even at midday. I needed to do a little location research for Bryant & May’s new novel, so I [...] Unexpected things you find in London restaurant bathrooms. Who knew? It’s in the basement of the Amalfi restaurant in Old Compton Street – God’s hand is pointing at the taps in a reinterpretation of the painting that suggests he’s not saying ‘Behold The Man’ but ‘Now Wash Your Hands’. The first in an occasional series looking at London shops, here’s the place where movie directors spend their fortunes. Comet Miniatures is the legendary Lavender Hill shop that appeals to both nostalgists and modern-day model makers, an Aladdin’s Cave of kits and collectables. Want the Corvette from ‘Animal House’ or the Famous Monsters Aurora models? [...] I love a new restaurant, but if I ate out in London all the time I’d be broke pretty quickly. So how come, even in the year of the ‘Jubilympics’, we’re getting so many new restaurants? I did a little research and discovered that this month alone, 102 new restaurants opened. And it’s the internet [...] |
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