London Calling

Missing in action People do sometimes just disappear and in a huge city like London it is perhaps slightly easier to do so. It is a particularly terrible ordeal for

March 7, 2019by Richard LamberthIn

London Calling

Going, going, gone This could have been the title of a recent art exhibition in London but, actually, Norwegian artist Olafur Eliasson called his poignant display ‘Ice Watch’. The Tate

January 19, 2019by Richard LamberthIn

London Calling

Talk to the animals London Zoo is the world’s oldest scientific zoo, having opened on April 27, 1828. It was intended purely as a centre for scientific study of animals

November 20, 2018by Richard LamberthIn

London Calling

Lovely jubbly! It seems that there is almost nothing that cannot be turned into a West End musical. “The Book of Mormon” seems like an unlikely subject for a smash

October 28, 2018by Richard LamberthIn

London Calling

Inside art A new art exhibition called “I’m Still Here” has opened at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank. But the source of this art is somewhat unexpected. All

October 4, 2018by Richard LamberthIn

London Calling

Lido love For many years, outdoor swimming pools or lidos were very popular throughout the UK and particularly in London. However, many closed in the last few decades of the

August 31, 2018by Richard LamberthIn

London Calling

Muslim London There are over 600,000 Muslims living in London, accounting for some 12.4% of the capital’s population according to the latest census, and, let’s face it, they don’t get

July 23, 2018by Richard LamberthIn

London Calling

All along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix famously died at his hotel in Notting Hill, London, in September 1970 and now another building associated with the most influential guitarist of the

London Calling

Singing in the rain London’s famous theatreland bumps into the shopping delights of the West End where Shaftesbury Avenue meets Oxford Street and near this corner is one of the

London Calling

Not a lot of people know that! Did you know it was Peter Sellers who coined this iconic phrase when doing an impression of Michael Caine supposedly reciting facts from

March 22, 2018by Richard LamberthIn