• The London Buzz – 14th April 2025

    Today’s London news round-up:
    ‘UK’s oldest Indian restaurant’ facing uncertain future amid row over lease Restaurant
    The future of a Brixton-based charity helping to feed some of the most deprived local families is in doubt after Lambeth council announced cuts to its funding. Brixton Blog
    We’re treated like peasants, say tenants in fight over mouldy homes BBC News
    Wandsworth Council will soon have a new leader if an expected challenge from with its majority Labour
  • More details for London’s new Roman Basilica museum revealed

    Following the recent discovery of Roman ruins in the City of London, more details have been revealed about the plans for a new museum of Roman London’s history.
    Possible entrance to the new museum (c) Woods Bagot
    The remains, which are thought to be part of what we might call London’s first “city hall”, were uncovered during excavations by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) before a skyscraper was built on the site.
    Since their discovery, the property developer has been
  • From gilded glamour to grim war: The King’s Gallery explores the long Edwardian era

    An exhibition that looks at the Edwardian era starts with an elegant royal marriage and ends in a nation mourning the death of untold thousands.This is the King’s Gallery’s look at the transition era of the Edwardians as society moved from the fusty Victorians into the modern world. It was also one of the most stratified periods of British history, with far less movement between the social classes than in the Victorian age and encouraged the revolutions that were to sweep across part
  • London’s Alleys: Prince of Wales Passage / Everton Mews, NW1

    Depending on which map and road signs you use, this long alleyway close to Euston station is either called Prince of Wales Passage or Everton Mews—but it was called William Mews for most of its life.This part of London was still fields as recently as the late 1700s, with the first houses appearing along the Hampstead Road by 1790.
    R Howood map 1799 with alley highlighted
    What was called William Mews was the back street for the houses on the south side that fronted onto William Street. That
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