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The arguments contemporary Shakespeare cannot avoid.","sh":"talk","k":"Books & writers","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Art & design","ty":["art","books","free","talk"],"f":"2026-12-08","t":"2026-12-08"},{"name":"Gresham College: Shakespeare and the Shrinking Canon","slug":"gresham-college-shakespeare-and-the-shrinking-canon","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-shakespeare-and-the-shrinking-canon/","runs":{"from":"2027-06-07","to":"2027-06-07"},"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"Pepys thought Romeo and Juliet the worst play he had ever seen. 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Ships depend on understanding why.","sh":"talk","k":"Science & nature","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Science & nature","ty":["free","science","talk"],"f":"2027-06-01","t":"2027-06-01"},{"name":"Gresham College: The Chaotic Solar System","slug":"gresham-college-the-chaotic-solar-system","cat":"whats-on","url":"/venues/conway-hall/gresham-college-the-chaotic-solar-system/","runs":{"from":"2027-01-27","to":"2027-01-27"},"in":1,"at":{"n":"Conway Hall","u":"/venues/conway-hall/"},"lat":51.51986,"lng":-0.118313,"verdict":"The solar system is not a clockwork. 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S. Eliot's office for forty years, where the author of The Waste Land read other people's poems for a living.","thumb":"/img/faber-faber-24-russell-square-480.jpg?v=21363eaf","img":"/img/faber-faber-24-russell-square.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Gay's the Word","slug":"gays-the-word","cat":"literary","url":"/literary/gays-the-word/","in":1,"lat":51.525423,"lng":-0.125198,"verdict":"Britain's first lesbian and gay bookshop, on Marchmont Street since 1979.","thumb":"/img/gays-the-word-480.jpg?v=df50db6e","img":"/img/gays-the-word.jpg","w":1002,"h":1024},{"name":"Gordon Square","slug":"gordon-square","cat":"literary","url":"/literary/gordon-square/","in":1,"lat":51.524262,"lng":-0.130872,"verdict":"Where the Bloomsbury Group began: No. 46, the Stephen siblings' house of 1904, later Keynes's for thirty years, with Strachey at 51 and the group's plaque on 50.","thumb":"/img/gordon-square-480.jpg?v=75e83a40","img":"/img/gordon-square.jpg","w":1024,"h":647},{"name":"Senate 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52.","thumb":"/img/tavistock-square-480.jpg?v=b2700388","img":"/img/tavistock-square.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Miranda and Bello's house, Grafton Way","slug":"francisco-de-miranda","cat":"world","url":"/world/francisco-de-miranda/","lat":51.52349,"lng":-0.137964,"verdict":"The headquarters of Spanish-American independence, run for eight years from a terrace in Fitzrovia.","thumb":"/img/francisco-de-miranda-480.jpg?v=d4b1dfa2","img":"/img/francisco-de-miranda.jpg","w":639,"h":478},{"name":"Ram Mohan Roy's lodging, Bedford Square","slug":"ram-mohan-roy","cat":"world","url":"/world/ram-mohan-roy/","in":1,"lat":51.51858,"lng":-0.129235,"verdict":"The Bloomsbury lodging of the reformer who came as the Mughal emperor's envoy and never went home.","thumb":"/img/ram-mohan-roy-480.jpg?v=254924f6","img":"/img/ram-mohan-roy.jpg","w":1024,"h":947},{"name":"Sun Yat-sen's lodging, Gray's Inn 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took off.","thumb":"/img/st-pancras-renaissance-hotel-480.jpg?v=7f1fdb82","img":"/img/st-pancras-renaissance-hotel.jpg","w":1024,"h":863}]},{"slug":"borough-bermondsey","zone":"central","first":true,"name":"Borough & Bermondsey","verdict":"The old way into London: coaching inns, a thousand-year-old market, and warehouse streets down to Tower Bridge.","note":"The land at the southern end of London Bridge, which for centuries was where you waited to get into the city. Borough High Street was lined with inns where the coaches stopped, and the George, rebuilt in 1677, is the last galleried coaching inn left in London. Borough Market grew up beside it and has been selling food on or near this spot for something close to a thousand years.\n\nBermondsey behind it was made by an abbey founded in 1082, whose monks drained the marsh and embanked the river. What came next was industry of a particularly strong-smelling kind. The tanneries took the hides, and Leathermarket Street and Morocco Street still carry the trade in their names; the food factories took everything else, with Peek Freans baking biscuits here from 1857 and Hartley's boiling jam, so much of it that the district was called the larder of London. Along the water stood three and a half miles of warehouses holding what the ships brought in.\n\nThen it stopped. 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Court","slug":"legal-and-illegal-london-the-inns-of-court","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/legal-and-illegal-london-the-inns-of-court/","lat":51.517115,"lng":-0.120066,"verdict":"Through the four Inns and the courts, on the law's own ground."},{"name":"Literary London","slug":"literary-london","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/literary-london/","lat":51.517115,"lng":-0.120066,"verdict":"Bloomsbury's squares, and the writers who worked in the houses round them."},{"name":"Past the Palace","slug":"past-the-palace","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/past-the-palace/","in":1,"lat":51.507214,"lng":-0.122241,"verdict":"The royal quarter through the keyhole rather than over the railings."},{"name":"Rock'n'Roll London: the Pub Walk","slug":"rocknroll-london-the-pub-walk","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/rocknroll-london-the-pub-walk/","lat":51.515971,"lng":-0.130513,"verdict":"Soho's music history, walked between the pubs that were part of it."},{"name":"Seven Deadly Sins","slug":"seven-deadly-sins","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/seven-deadly-sins/","in":1,"lat":51.513094,"lng":-0.12427,"verdict":"Lust, avarice, pride and the other four, each pinned to a specific address."},{"name":"Thames Sightseeing: Brunel's River","slug":"thames-sightseeing-brunels-river","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/thames-sightseeing-brunels-river/","in":1,"lat":51.507214,"lng":-0.122241,"verdict":"A river trip rather than a walk, with a guide on the boat as far as Brunel's tunnel."},{"name":"The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour","slug":"the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/the-beatles-magical-mystery-tour/","lat":51.515971,"lng":-0.130513,"verdict":"Four days a week through the Soho and Marylebone the Beatles actually used - the clubs, the offices, the rooftop."},{"name":"The Ghost Bus Tours","slug":"the-ghost-bus-tours","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/the-ghost-bus-tours/","lat":51.506879,"lng":-0.125941,"verdict":"A black 1960s Routemaster with actors on board, doing the haunted version of the sightseeing tour."},{"name":"The National Gallery Tour","slug":"the-national-gallery-tour","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/the-national-gallery-tour/","in":1,"lat":51.507214,"lng":-0.122241,"verdict":"From the Wilton Diptych to the Sunflowers, with somebody choosing which thirty pictures."},{"name":"Westminster at War","slug":"westminster-at-war","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/westminster-at-war/","in":1,"lat":51.507214,"lng":-0.122241,"verdict":"The nerve centre of the war, sandbagged, bombed and still governing."},{"name":"Cecil Court","slug":"cecil-court","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/cecil-court/","in":1,"lat":51.510725,"lng":-0.127675,"verdict":"A pedestrian lane of antiquarian bookshops, maps and prints, the book trade's since the 1890s.","thumb":"/img/cecil-court-480.jpg?v=de6d1805","img":"/img/cecil-court.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Charing Cross Road","slug":"charing-cross-road","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/charing-cross-road/","lat":51.5129,"lng":-0.128892,"verdict":"The bookshop street, Foyles at the top of it.","thumb":"/img/charing-cross-road-480.jpg?v=07695816","img":"/img/charing-cross-road.jpg","w":1024,"h":790},{"name":"Denmark Street","slug":"denmark-street","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/denmark-street/","in":1,"lat":51.5156,"lng":-0.12869,"verdict":"Tin Pan Alley, still selling guitars: twelve instrument shops in a hundred metres of street."},{"name":"Foyles","slug":"foyles","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/foyles/","lat":51.514278,"lng":-0.130058,"verdict":"Four miles of shelving up an atrium, on the road that used to be nothing but bookshops.","thumb":"/img/foyles-480.jpg?v=ee329b23","img":"/img/foyles.jpg","w":1024,"h":771},{"name":"James Smith & Sons","slug":"james-smith-sons","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/james-smith-sons/","in":1,"lat":51.51683,"lng":-0.126612,"verdict":"An umbrella shop of 1857 with its Victorian shopfront entirely intact, still making sticks and umbrellas on the premises.","thumb":"/img/james-smith-sons-480.jpg?v=d5062aba","img":"/img/james-smith-sons.jpg","w":1024,"h":553},{"name":"Seven Dials","slug":"seven-dials","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/seven-dials/","in":1,"lat":51.514,"lng":-0.127,"verdict":"The seven streets off the sundial: independent fashion, beauty and the Neal's Yard shops."},{"name":"Hungerford Bridge","slug":"hungerford-bridge","cat":"views","url":"/views/hungerford-bridge/","lat":51.506151,"lng":-0.120098,"verdict":"Two walkways bolted either side of a railway bridge, one facing Westminster and one the City."},{"name":"Royal Opera House","slug":"royal-opera-house","cat":"views","url":"/views/royal-opera-house/","in":1,"lat":51.512883,"lng":-0.122497,"verdict":"A fifth-floor terrace over Covent Garden Piazza, open to anyone, ticket or not.","thumb":"/img/royal-opera-house-480.jpg?v=782f46a7","img":"/img/royal-opera-house.jpg","w":1024,"h":925},{"name":"Waterloo Bridge","slug":"waterloo-bridge","cat":"views","url":"/views/waterloo-bridge/","lat":51.508551,"lng":-0.116847,"verdict":"The one crossing that shows you both Londons at once: Westminster upstream, the City down."},{"name":"The Retro Bar","slug":"the-retro-bar","cat":"nightlife","url":"/nightlife/the-retro-bar/","in":1,"lat":51.509102,"lng":-0.123566,"verdict":"Up an alley off the Strand, with a jukebox where the dancefloor would be."},{"name":"% Arabica","slug":"arabica-covent-garden","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/arabica-covent-garden/","in":1,"lat":51.511704,"lng":-0.124025,"verdict":"The first %Arabica in Britain, a few steps off the Piazza."},{"name":"Fernandez & Wells","slug":"fernandez-wells","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/fernandez-wells/","in":1,"lat":51.515339,"lng":-0.129027,"verdict":"Sandwiches with heft, and coffee roasted to their own spec."},{"name":"Kiss the Hippo","slug":"kiss-the-hippo-covent-garden","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/kiss-the-hippo-covent-garden/","in":1,"lat":51.511125,"lng":-0.126511,"verdict":"Carbon-negative coffee, three UK Barista Championships behind it."},{"name":"Monmouth Coffee Company","slug":"monmouth-coffee-company-seven-dials","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/monmouth-coffee-company-seven-dials/","in":1,"lat":51.514366,"lng":-0.1268,"verdict":"Where Monmouth started in 1978, and nobody has redesigned it since.","thumb":"/img/monmouth-coffee-company-seven-dials-480.jpg?v=c14b330f","img":"/img/monmouth-coffee-company-seven-dials.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"Notes","slug":"notes-st-martins-lane","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/notes-st-martins-lane/","in":1,"lat":51.50952,"lng":-0.12674,"verdict":"Coffee until nine or ten at night between the Coliseum and Trafalgar Square."},{"name":"Redemption 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Road","slug":"donutelier-charing-cross-road","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/donutelier-charing-cross-road/","in":1,"lat":51.511942,"lng":-0.12821,"verdict":"Doughnuts finished by hand behind a window, in a room lit by chandeliers shaped like piping bags."},{"name":"Donutelier Soho Place","slug":"donutelier-soho-place","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/donutelier-soho-place/","lat":51.515893,"lng":-0.130453,"verdict":"A doughnut counter run like a pastry kitchen, on the ground floor of Soho Place."},{"name":"Donutelier Strand","slug":"donutelier-strand","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/donutelier-strand/","in":1,"lat":51.508858,"lng":-0.125296,"verdict":"Croissants and hand-decorated doughnuts at the Aldwych end of the Strand."},{"name":"Fabrique","slug":"fabrique-seven-dials","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/fabrique-seven-dials/","in":1,"lat":51.513437,"lng":-0.12838,"verdict":"The Earlham Street branch, for the same cardamom bun in the middle of town."},{"name":"Sakurado","slug":"sakurado-covent-garden","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/sakurado-covent-garden/","in":1,"lat":51.510761,"lng":-0.122032,"verdict":"Japanese patisserie on Southampton Street: mille crepe, jiggly cheesecake, mochi made fresh."},{"name":"\u00d4 Craquelin","slug":"o-craquelin","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/o-craquelin/","in":1,"lat":51.512273,"lng":-0.119896,"verdict":"A choux specialist, and a Paris-Brest worth sitting down for."},{"name":"Anita","slug":"anita","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/anita/","in":1,"lat":51.512205,"lng":-0.126894,"verdict":"Gelato on Upper St Martin's Lane, with a few seats outside and a counter arranged to be argued over."},{"name":"Badiani Covent Garden","slug":"badiani-covent-garden","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/badiani-covent-garden/","in":1,"lat":51.513219,"lng":-0.125725,"verdict":"Gelato on the quiet lane between Long Acre and Seven Dials."},{"name":"Gelatorino","slug":"gelatorino","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/gelatorino/","in":1,"lat":51.512656,"lng":-0.120864,"verdict":"The name runs gelato and Torino together, and the recipe comes from the same place."},{"name":"Knoops Covent Garden","slug":"knoops-covent-garden","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/knoops-covent-garden/","in":1,"lat":51.511007,"lng":-0.126639,"verdict":"Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, on the lane behind the Coliseum."},{"name":"Kova Patisserie Chinatown","slug":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/kova-patisserie-chinatown/","lat":51.511882,"lng":-0.128898,"verdict":"The Chinatown counter, open to eleven at weekends."},{"name":"La Gelatiera","slug":"la-gelatiera","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/la-gelatiera/","in":1,"lat":51.511099,"lng":-0.126774,"verdict":"Gelato churned slowly enough to keep the air out, on the lane between Covent Garden and St Martin's Lane."},{"name":"Lakrids by B\u00fclow","slug":"lakrids-by-bulow","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/lakrids-by-bulow/","in":1,"lat":51.513292,"lng":-0.127238,"verdict":"Danish liquorice in chocolate, from a company whose stated mission is to give everyone on earth a free sample."},{"name":"Pierre Herm\u00e9","slug":"pierre-herme","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/pierre-herme/","in":1,"lat":51.513418,"lng":-0.127194,"verdict":"The macarons that made the pastry chef famous, on a Seven Dials corner."},{"name":"Venchi Long Acre","slug":"venchi-long-acre","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/venchi-long-acre/","in":1,"lat":51.512851,"lng":-0.124421,"verdict":"Turin chocolate and gelato on the busiest walking route across Covent Garden."},{"name":"WA Caf\u00e9","slug":"wa-cafe","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/wa-cafe/","in":1,"lat":51.511041,"lng":-0.126334,"verdict":"Japanese patisserie on a Covent Garden side street, French method and Japanese flavours."},{"name":"Dishoom Covent 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that has been serving it since 1889."},{"name":"Fishoria","slug":"fishoria","cat":"fish-and-chips","url":"/fish-and-chips/fishoria/","lat":51.517168,"lng":-0.126189,"verdict":"A modern room doing it the old way, on New Oxford Street."},{"name":"Rock & Sole Plaice","slug":"rock-and-sole-plaice","cat":"fish-and-chips","url":"/fish-and-chips/rock-and-sole-plaice/","in":1,"lat":51.514807,"lng":-0.125183,"verdict":"Frying on the same corner since 1871, which makes it the oldest chippy in London."},{"name":"Arcade Food Hall","slug":"arcade-food-hall","cat":"food-markets","url":"/food-markets/arcade-food-hall/","in":1,"lat":51.516278,"lng":-0.129543,"verdict":"JKS restaurants in a food hall, with a games room attached."},{"name":"Seven Dials Market","slug":"seven-dials-market","cat":"food-markets","url":"/food-markets/seven-dials-market/","in":1,"lat":51.514027,"lng":-0.126047,"verdict":"A former banana warehouse, now the best eating in Covent 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ceiling with portraits, and almost nowhere to sit.","thumb":"/img/the-harp-480.jpg?v=cbeb74d0","img":"/img/the-harp.jpg","w":770,"h":1024},{"name":"The Salisbury","slug":"the-salisbury","cat":"pubs","url":"/pubs/the-salisbury/","in":1,"lat":51.510924,"lng":-0.127228,"verdict":"Cut glass, mirrors and Art Nouveau lamps in the theatre district, with one partition left of the many it had.","thumb":"/img/the-salisbury-480.jpg?v=78637ed9","img":"/img/the-salisbury.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"American Bar at The Savoy","slug":"american-bar","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/american-bar/","in":1,"lat":51.510127,"lng":-0.120499,"verdict":"London's oldest surviving cocktail bar, open since 1893."},{"name":"Bar Termini","slug":"bar-termini","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/bar-termini/","lat":51.513669,"lng":-0.129783,"verdict":"Thirty seats, an Italian aperitivo list, and very good coffee."},{"name":"Beaufort 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the reason to come."},{"name":"Noble Rot Soho","slug":"noble-rot-soho","cat":"wine","url":"/wine/noble-rot-soho/","lat":51.514861,"lng":-0.131242,"verdict":"The Soho Noble Rot, in the old Gay Hussar \u2014 and the one you cannot drop into for a glass."},{"name":"The 10 Cases","slug":"the-10-cases","cat":"wine","url":"/wine/the-10-cases/","in":1,"lat":51.514285,"lng":-0.124212,"verdict":"A Covent Garden bistrot \u00e0 vin that buys ten cases and moves on."},{"name":"Covent Garden","slug":"covent-garden-piazza","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/covent-garden-piazza/","in":1,"lat":51.51061,"lng":-0.122436,"verdict":"Street performers in the square, small shops under the glass roof of the old market building, and the Royal Opera House and the theatres in the streets around it. 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courtyard off Seven Dials painted in every colour, reached through an alley you would walk past.","thumb":"/img/street-neals-yard-480.jpg?v=36effb6a","img":"/img/street-neals-yard.jpg","w":1024,"h":963},{"name":"Seven Dials & Monmouth Street","slug":"seven-dials-monmouth-street","cat":"beautiful-streets","url":"/beautiful-streets/seven-dials-monmouth-street/","in":1,"lat":51.514446,"lng":-0.126901,"verdict":"Seven streets meeting at a sundial pillar, with small shops down every spoke.","thumb":"/img/seven-dials-monmouth-street-480.jpg?v=b2e2cf28","img":"/img/seven-dials-monmouth-street.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Bush House","slug":"bush-house","cat":"architecture","url":"/architecture/bush-house/","lat":51.512743,"lng":-0.117172,"verdict":"The most expensive building in the world in 1929, and the address the BBC World Service broadcast from for seventy years.","thumb":"/img/bush-house-480.jpg?v=92e65109","img":"/img/bush-house.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Centre 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memorial.","thumb":"/img/freemasons-hall-480.jpg?v=1ed4f086","img":"/img/freemasons-hall.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Charles I at Charing Cross","slug":"charles-i-at-charing-cross","cat":"monuments","url":"/monuments/charles-i-at-charing-cross/","lat":51.507334,"lng":-0.127655,"verdict":"The oldest bronze equestrian statue in England, and the point from which every distance to London is measured.","thumb":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1","img":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Cleopatra's Needle","slug":"cleopatras-needle","cat":"monuments","url":"/monuments/cleopatras-needle/","in":1,"lat":51.508515,"lng":-0.120316,"verdict":"A 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk on the Embankment, with bomb scars from 1917 and a time capsule underneath.","thumb":"/img/cleopatras-needle-480.jpg?v=0254c0c7","img":"/img/cleopatras-needle.jpg","w":1024,"h":685},{"name":"Edith Cavell 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The seventh dial is the column.","thumb":"/img/seven-dials-sundial-pillar-480.jpg?v=67f24509","img":"/img/seven-dials-sundial-pillar.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column","slug":"nelsons-column","cat":"monuments","url":"/monuments/nelsons-column/","lat":51.507759,"lng":-0.12793,"verdict":"The symbolic heart of London: Barry's square with Nelson fifty-two metres above it, and Landseer's lions to climb on.","thumb":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb","img":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Cecil Court","slug":"cecil-court","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/cecil-court/","in":1,"lat":51.510727,"lng":-0.127657,"verdict":"A Victorian passage of antiquarian booksellers and print dealers, unchanged shopfront by shopfront.","thumb":"/img/cecil-court-480.jpg?v=de6d1805","img":"/img/cecil-court.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Choosing 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for a 1930s fit-out of spittoon troughs and Art Deco lino.","thumb":"/img/coach-and-horses-soho-480.jpg?v=c106faf2","img":"/img/coach-and-horses-soho.jpg","w":1024,"h":681},{"name":"The Old Curiosity Shop","slug":"the-old-curiosity-shop","cat":"literary","url":"/literary/the-old-curiosity-shop/","lat":51.514988,"lng":-0.117321,"verdict":"A crooked sixteenth-century shop that borrowed Dickens's title and has kept it ever since.","thumb":"/img/the-old-curiosity-shop-480.jpg?v=052f6996","img":"/img/the-old-curiosity-shop.jpg","w":1024,"h":896},{"name":"Benjamin Franklin House","slug":"benjamin-franklin-house","cat":"world","url":"/world/benjamin-franklin-house/","in":1,"lat":51.507651,"lng":-0.124892,"verdict":"The only Franklin home left anywhere in the world, where he spent sixteen years trying to keep America British.","thumb":"/img/benjamin-franklin-house-480.jpg?v=acfd733e","img":"/img/benjamin-franklin-house.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"Heine's lodging, Craven 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landing.","thumb":"/img/hamleys-480.jpg?v=22d80275","img":"/img/hamleys.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Hatchards","slug":"hatchards","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/hatchards/","lat":51.508475,"lng":-0.138049,"verdict":"London's oldest bookshop, opened in 1797 and still selling books over five floors of Piccadilly.","thumb":"/img/hatchards-480.jpg?v=7c738126","img":"/img/hatchards.jpg","w":688,"h":1024},{"name":"Jermyn Street","slug":"jermyn-street","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/jermyn-street/","lat":51.50848,"lng":-0.136445,"verdict":"Shirtmakers, shoemakers, a cheesemonger and a perfumer, most of them here for a century or more.","thumb":"/img/jermyn-street-480.jpg?v=cf6b7a88","img":"/img/jermyn-street.jpg","w":836,"h":1024},{"name":"John Lewis Oxford Street","slug":"john-lewis-oxford-street","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/john-lewis-oxford-street/","lat":51.515425,"lng":-0.145208,"verdict":"The flagship of a shop owned by the people who work in it.","thumb":"/img/john-lewis-oxford-street-480.jpg?v=d1dd6f61","img":"/img/john-lewis-oxford-street.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Liberty London","slug":"liberty-london","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/liberty-london/","lat":51.513835,"lng":-0.140075,"verdict":"A mock-Tudor department store built from two warships, and the printed fabrics that carry its name worldwide.","thumb":"/img/liberty-london-480.jpg?v=8466f8dd","img":"/img/liberty-london.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Oxford Street","slug":"oxford-street","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/oxford-street/","in":1,"lat":51.514694,"lng":-0.146528,"verdict":"Selfridges, John Lewis and the high street at its densest."},{"name":"Paxton & Whitfield","slug":"paxton-whitfield","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/paxton-whitfield/","lat":51.508272,"lng":-0.136902,"verdict":"Cheesemonger to Jermyn Street since 1797, with a counter of British farmhouse cheese cut to 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Jermyn Street shirtmaker, cutting bespoke on the premises since 1885 and holding a royal warrant for most of a century.","thumb":"/img/turnbull-asser-480.jpg?v=4acee55e","img":"/img/turnbull-asser.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Waterstones Piccadilly","slug":"waterstones-piccadilly","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/waterstones-piccadilly/","lat":51.50899,"lng":-0.135875,"verdict":"The largest bookshop in Europe, eight miles of shelves in the modernist Simpson's building on Piccadilly.","thumb":"/img/waterstones-piccadilly-480.jpg?v=d07eaeed","img":"/img/waterstones-piccadilly.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Grosvenor Square","slug":"grosvenor-square","cat":"outdoors","url":"/outdoors/grosvenor-square/","in":1,"lat":51.51151,"lng":-0.151441,"verdict":"London's second largest garden square, dug up for a year and replanted as a wood.","thumb":"/img/grosvenor-square-480.jpg?v=10b55968","img":"/img/grosvenor-square.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Mount Street 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seven on a weekday."},{"name":"Notes","slug":"notes-mayfair","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/notes-mayfair/","in":1,"lat":51.514036,"lng":-0.149337,"verdict":"Coffee by day, wine by night, on the wrong end of Oxford Street."},{"name":"Redemption Roasters","slug":"redemption-roasters-st-james-s","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/redemption-roasters-st-james-s/","lat":51.508468,"lng":-0.136869,"verdict":"Jermyn Street, which is a pointed address for this business."},{"name":"WatchHouse Hanover","slug":"watchhouse-hanover","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/watchhouse-hanover/","in":1,"lat":51.513708,"lng":-0.145077,"verdict":"WatchHouse in a Mayfair courtyard, doing the same thing more quietly."},{"name":"Workshop Coffee Co","slug":"workshop-coffee-co","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/workshop-coffee-co/","lat":51.515204,"lng":-0.149984,"verdict":"Workshop's Barrett Street counter, and a seasonal single origin on filter."},{"name":"Bread 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one-button coat, a structured shoulder, and a shop front that has been used as a film set more than once.","thumb":"/img/huntsman-480.jpg?v=92236b56","img":"/img/huntsman.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"James Purdey & Sons","slug":"james-purdey-sons","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/james-purdey-sons/","in":1,"lat":51.509303,"lng":-0.151979,"verdict":"A gunmaker's showroom of 1882 that is worth entering for the engraving and the room, whatever you think of guns.","thumb":"/img/james-purdey-sons-480.jpg?v=3962d00a","img":"/img/james-purdey-sons.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Jermyn Street","slug":"jermyn-street","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/jermyn-street/","lat":51.507892,"lng":-0.138221,"verdict":"Two hundred yards holding more shirtmakers, perfumers, cheesemongers and shoemakers than the rest of Britain put together.","thumb":"/img/jermyn-street-480.jpg?v=cf6b7a88","img":"/img/jermyn-street.jpg","w":836,"h":1024},{"name":"John 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through the year."},{"name":"Royal Astronomical Society","slug":"royal-astronomical-society","cat":"societies","url":"/societies/royal-astronomical-society/","in":1,"lat":51.508585,"lng":-0.139459,"verdict":"Public lectures on astronomy and geophysics, and a library you can arrange to use, in the Burlington House courtyard."},{"name":"Society of Antiquaries of London","slug":"society-of-antiquaries-of-london","cat":"societies","url":"/societies/society-of-antiquaries-of-london/","in":1,"lat":51.508763,"lng":-0.139624,"verdict":"The oldest society for the study of the past in Britain, giving lunchtime lectures anyone may attend in its rooms at Burlington House."},{"name":"Hatchards","slug":"hatchards","cat":"literary","url":"/literary/hatchards/","lat":51.508475,"lng":-0.138049,"verdict":"London's oldest bookshop, trading on Piccadilly since 1797, with three royal warrants over the 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chose as a young immigrant and never left, where Messiah was written in three weeks.","thumb":"/img/handel-hendrix-house-480.jpg?v=0a0f1673","img":"/img/handel-hendrix-house.jpg","w":728,"h":1024},{"name":"Hendrix's flat, Brook Street","slug":"jimi-hendrix","cat":"world","url":"/world/jimi-hendrix/","in":1,"lat":51.513073,"lng":-0.145894,"verdict":"The flat where Hendrix lived as a star, next door to the house where Handel lived as one.","thumb":"/img/jimi-hendrix-480.jpg?v=e788b2e5","img":"/img/jimi-hendrix.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"John Adams's house, Grosvenor Square","slug":"john-adams","cat":"world","url":"/world/john-adams/","in":1,"lat":51.512566,"lng":-0.150394,"verdict":"The house of America's first minister to Britain, who was also the second President.","thumb":"/img/john-adams-480.jpg?v=ebbf2797","img":"/img/john-adams.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"Korda's office, Grosvenor 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The land was clay, dug for bricks and tiles, and there were piggeries on the slope where pig-keepers pushed out of Marble Arch had settled; a racecourse called the Hippodrome ran round the hill from 1837 and closed four years later, defeated by mud and by a public footpath nobody could close. James Weller Ladbroke then laid the hill out from the 1820s in the crescents you see now, with communal gardens behind the terraces rather than in front of them.\n\nBy the 1950s the big houses had been carved into rooms and let, often by Peter Rachman, whose name became a word for exploiting tenants. West Indian families settled here because they were among the few places that would take them, and in 1958 white gangs attacked their homes for the better part of a week. What grew out of that is the Notting Hill Carnival, held since 1965 over the August bank holiday, and now a street festival of over a million people.\n\nPortobello Road runs almost the length of the district and holds the market: antiques on Saturday, fruit and vegetables the rest of the week, everything else in between.\n\nHolland Park at the southern end is the quiet counterweight: woodland, peacocks, a Japanese garden, and the ruin of a Jacobean house bombed in 1940, where opera is staged each summer.","figure":{"src":"/img/area-notting-hill-holland-park-lead2.jpg?v=a2df3054","thumb":"/img/area-notting-hill-holland-park-lead2-480.jpg?v=1ea2765d","width":1280,"height":1051,"thumb_width":500,"alt":"Pastel-painted terraced houses along Portobello Road in Notting Hill, in pink, blue and yellow","caption":"Portobello Road's painted houses.","credit":"Photo by Maggie Jones from London, England, Public domain, via Wikimedia 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down Charles Street.","thumb":"/img/theatre-royal-haymarket-480.jpg?v=23ae2ea5","img":"/img/theatre-royal-haymarket.jpg","w":1024,"h":733},{"name":"Tom Stoppard Theatre","slug":"tom-stoppard-theatre","cat":"venues","url":"/venues/tom-stoppard-theatre/","lat":51.510201,"lng":-0.127359,"verdict":"The house where Peter Pan first flew, renamed in 2026 for Tom Stoppard."},{"name":"Trafalgar Theatre","slug":"trafalgar-theatre","cat":"venues","url":"/venues/trafalgar-theatre/","lat":51.506579,"lng":-0.127631,"verdict":"Art Deco on Whitehall, turned into two studios for sixteen years and put back as one 630-seat room in 2021."},{"name":"Wyndham's Theatre","slug":"wyndhams-theatre","cat":"venues","url":"/venues/wyndhams-theatre/","lat":51.511111,"lng":-0.128054,"verdict":"Under eight hundred seats on four tiers, which is why nobody in it is far from the stage."},{"name":"Prince Charles 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explains what the ceremony is for."},{"name":"Death, Debauchery and Doctors in Soho","slug":"death-debauchery-and-doctors-in-soho","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/death-debauchery-and-doctors-in-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.515971,"lng":-0.130513,"verdict":"Cholera, John Snow and the pump that proved how disease travels, among the side streets of Soho."},{"name":"Gin Lane: Hogarth and the Gin Craze","slug":"gin-lane-hogarth-and-the-gin-craze","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/gin-lane-hogarth-and-the-gin-craze/","lat":51.511464,"lng":-0.128264,"verdict":"Hogarth's 1751 print, and the streets of Covent Garden and St Giles it was drawn about."},{"name":"Rock'n'Roll London: the Pub Walk","slug":"rocknroll-london-the-pub-walk","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/rocknroll-london-the-pub-walk/","in":1,"lat":51.515971,"lng":-0.130513,"verdict":"Soho's music history, walked between the pubs that were part of it."},{"name":"The Beatles Magical Mystery 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Road","slug":"charing-cross-road","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/charing-cross-road/","in":1,"lat":51.5129,"lng":-0.128892,"verdict":"The bookshop street, Foyles at the top of it.","thumb":"/img/charing-cross-road-480.jpg?v=07695816","img":"/img/charing-cross-road.jpg","w":1024,"h":790},{"name":"Denmark Street","slug":"denmark-street","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/denmark-street/","lat":51.5156,"lng":-0.12869,"verdict":"Tin Pan Alley, still selling guitars: twelve instrument shops in a hundred metres of street."},{"name":"Foyles","slug":"foyles","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/foyles/","in":1,"lat":51.514278,"lng":-0.130058,"verdict":"Four miles of shelving up an atrium, on the road that used to be nothing but bookshops.","thumb":"/img/foyles-480.jpg?v=ee329b23","img":"/img/foyles.jpg","w":1024,"h":771},{"name":"Hamleys","slug":"hamleys","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/hamleys/","in":1,"lat":51.51291,"lng":-0.139942,"verdict":"Seven floors of toys with somebody demonstrating one on every landing.","thumb":"/img/hamleys-480.jpg?v=22d80275","img":"/img/hamleys.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Liberty London","slug":"liberty-london","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/liberty-london/","in":1,"lat":51.513835,"lng":-0.140075,"verdict":"A mock-Tudor department store built from two warships, and the printed fabrics that carry its name worldwide.","thumb":"/img/liberty-london-480.jpg?v=8466f8dd","img":"/img/liberty-london.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Regent Street","slug":"regent-street","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/regent-street/","lat":51.512013,"lng":-0.139742,"verdict":"The big names' flagships under one curved Regency facade."},{"name":"Comptons of Soho","slug":"comptons-of-soho","cat":"nightlife","url":"/nightlife/comptons-of-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.512605,"lng":-0.132515,"verdict":"The pub in the middle of Old Compton Street, and the one that helped make the street what it is."},{"name":"Soho","slug":"soho-at-night","cat":"nightlife","url":"/nightlife/soho-at-night/","in":1,"lat":51.51317,"lng":-0.131325,"verdict":"The oldest nightlife district in London, and still the one that runs latest."},{"name":"The Duke of Wellington","slug":"the-duke-of-wellington","cat":"nightlife","url":"/nightlife/the-duke-of-wellington/","in":1,"lat":51.512317,"lng":-0.133126,"verdict":"A small corner pub near the top of Wardour Street, and Soho's bear bar."},{"name":"Ada","slug":"ada","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/ada/","in":1,"lat":51.513797,"lng":-0.133014,"verdict":"A Dean Street coffee hatch, weekdays only: you order at the window and take it with you."},{"name":"Algerian Coffee Stores","slug":"algerian-coffee-stores","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/algerian-coffee-stores/","in":1,"lat":51.512913,"lng":-0.132193,"verdict":"Espresso for about a pound and a half at the counter of an 1887 bean merchant, to take away - there is nowhere to sit and never has been.","thumb":"/img/algerian-coffee-stores-480.jpg?v=e2a09d68","img":"/img/algerian-coffee-stores.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Bar Italia","slug":"bar-italia","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/bar-italia/","in":1,"lat":51.513421,"lng":-0.1312352,"verdict":"A 1949 Italian bar on Frith Street, still the Polledris\u2019, still going when the rest of Soho has shut.","thumb":"/img/bar-italia-480.jpg?v=f0a198f6","img":"/img/bar-italia.jpg","w":1024,"h":781},{"name":"Bija","slug":"bija","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/bija/","lat":51.508902,"lng":-0.133118,"verdict":"Indonesian single origins, and the best new coffee shop of 2025."},{"name":"Department Of Coffee And Social Affairs","slug":"department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs-st-james-s","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs-st-james-s/","in":1,"lat":51.510941,"lng":-0.135993,"verdict":"A Sherwood Street branch of a chain that varies."},{"name":"Department of Coffee and Social Affairs","slug":"department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs-soho","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.513594,"lng":-0.139007,"verdict":"A Carnaby back-alley branch of a group that is not uniform."},{"name":"Fernandez & Wells","slug":"fernandez-wells","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/fernandez-wells/","lat":51.515339,"lng":-0.129027,"verdict":"Sandwiches with heft, and coffee roasted to their own spec."},{"name":"Notes","slug":"notes-st-martins-lane","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/notes-st-martins-lane/","lat":51.50952,"lng":-0.12674,"verdict":"Coffee until nine or ten at night between the Coliseum and Trafalgar Square."},{"name":"Omotesando Koffee","slug":"omotesando-koffee","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/omotesando-koffee/","lat":51.516859,"lng":-0.135022,"verdict":"The Tokyo bar rebuilt as a plain cube, and an iced cappuccino under a head of bubble foam."},{"name":"The Colombian Coffee Company","slug":"the-colombian-coffee-company-soho","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/the-colombian-coffee-company-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.513759,"lng":-0.130487,"verdict":"Single-origin Colombian, served the way Colombians actually drink it."},{"name":"Bread Ahead","slug":"bread-ahead-soho","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/bread-ahead-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.512172,"lng":-0.138227,"verdict":"Beak Street, and the doughnut that made the name."},{"name":"Donutelier Carnaby Street","slug":"donutelier-carnaby-street","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/donutelier-carnaby-street/","in":1,"lat":51.51268,"lng":-0.13848,"verdict":"Nine or ten doughnuts at a time, each one decorated by hand, on Carnaby Street."},{"name":"Donutelier Charing Cross Road","slug":"donutelier-charing-cross-road","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/donutelier-charing-cross-road/","lat":51.511942,"lng":-0.12821,"verdict":"Doughnuts finished by hand behind a window, in a room lit by chandeliers shaped like piping bags."},{"name":"Donutelier Soho Place","slug":"donutelier-soho-place","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/donutelier-soho-place/","in":1,"lat":51.515893,"lng":-0.130453,"verdict":"A doughnut counter run like a pastry kitchen, on the ground floor of Soho Place."},{"name":"Donutelier Strand","slug":"donutelier-strand","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/donutelier-strand/","lat":51.508858,"lng":-0.125296,"verdict":"Croissants and hand-decorated doughnuts at the Aldwych end of the Strand."},{"name":"Fabrique","slug":"fabrique-seven-dials","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/fabrique-seven-dials/","lat":51.513437,"lng":-0.12838,"verdict":"The Earlham Street branch, for the same cardamom bun in the middle of town."},{"name":"Happy Sky Japanese Bakery","slug":"happy-sky-japanese-bakery","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/happy-sky-japanese-bakery/","lat":51.516552,"lng":-0.132663,"verdict":"Japanese baking on Hanway Street, four days a week."},{"name":"Caf\u00e9 de Nata","slug":"cafe-de-nata","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/cafe-de-nata/","in":1,"lat":51.513077,"lng":-0.131281,"verdict":"Past\u00e9is de nata baked through the day, in front of you, and eaten within the hour."},{"name":"Chin Chin","slug":"chin-chin","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/chin-chin/","in":1,"lat":51.51433,"lng":-0.1312,"verdict":"Ice cream frozen to order in liquid nitrogen, in a cloud, while you watch."},{"name":"Cr\u00e8me","slug":"creme","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/creme/","in":1,"lat":51.514864,"lng":-0.135513,"verdict":"Cookies baked to order and handed over still soft in the middle."},{"name":"Gelupo","slug":"gelupo","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/gelupo/","in":1,"lat":51.511586,"lng":-0.1337,"verdict":"Jacob Kenedy's gelateria, across the alley from his own restaurant, and the reason people cross Soho after dinner."},{"name":"Italian Bear Chocolate 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survived.","thumb":"/img/argyll-arms-480.jpg?v=ccf6828e","img":"/img/argyll-arms.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"The Coach and Horses","slug":"coach-and-horses-soho","cat":"pubs","url":"/pubs/coach-and-horses-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.513269,"lng":-0.130144,"verdict":"Jeffrey Bernard's pub on Greek Street, protected for a 1930s fit-out of spittoon troughs and Art Deco lino.","thumb":"/img/coach-and-horses-soho-480.jpg?v=c106faf2","img":"/img/coach-and-horses-soho.jpg","w":1024,"h":681},{"name":"The Dog and Duck","slug":"dog-and-duck-soho","cat":"pubs","url":"/pubs/dog-and-duck-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.513999,"lng":-0.131962,"verdict":"A very small Soho pub of 1897, thick with glazed tile and advertising mirrors, where Orwell drank.","thumb":"/img/dog-and-duck-soho-480.jpg?v=e23a1477","img":"/img/dog-and-duck-soho.jpg","w":770,"h":1024},{"name":"The Salisbury","slug":"the-salisbury","cat":"pubs","url":"/pubs/the-salisbury/","lat":51.510924,"lng":-0.127228,"verdict":"Cut glass, mirrors and Art Nouveau lamps in the theatre district, with one partition left of the many it had.","thumb":"/img/the-salisbury-480.jpg?v=78637ed9","img":"/img/the-salisbury.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Bar Am\u00e9ricain","slug":"bar-americain","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/bar-americain/","in":1,"lat":51.510628,"lng":-0.1356,"verdict":"An Art Deco room off Piccadilly, at sensible prices."},{"name":"Bar Italia","slug":"bar-italia","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/bar-italia/","in":1,"lat":51.513421,"lng":-0.131235,"verdict":"Not a cocktail bar: a 1949 Italian counter that will make you a spritz at two in the morning.","thumb":"/img/bar-italia-480.jpg?v=f0a198f6","img":"/img/bar-italia.jpg","w":1024,"h":781},{"name":"Bar Termini","slug":"bar-termini","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/bar-termini/","in":1,"lat":51.513669,"lng":-0.129783,"verdict":"Thirty seats, an Italian aperitivo list, and very good coffee."},{"name":"Below Stone 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door."},{"name":"Milroy's","slug":"milroys","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/milroys/","in":1,"lat":51.51482,"lng":-0.13121,"verdict":"A whisky shop with a bar hidden behind the bookcase."},{"name":"Mr Fogg's","slug":"mr-foggs","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/mr-foggs/","in":1,"lat":51.515498,"lng":-0.134457,"verdict":"Victorian-explorer theatre, played entirely straight."},{"name":"Swift","slug":"swift","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/swift/","in":1,"lat":51.513737,"lng":-0.129991,"verdict":"A quick one upstairs, a long one in the basement."},{"name":"The Punch Room","slug":"the-punch-room","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/the-punch-room/","lat":51.516779,"lng":-0.136055,"verdict":"Oak panelling, low light, and punch served by the bowl."},{"name":"Antidote Wine Bar","slug":"antidote-wine-bar","cat":"wine","url":"/wine/antidote-wine-bar/","in":1,"lat":51.513556,"lng":-0.138654,"verdict":"A narrow Newburgh Street bar, low-intervention list, upstairs dining room."},{"name":"Noble Rot Soho","slug":"noble-rot-soho","cat":"wine","url":"/wine/noble-rot-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.514861,"lng":-0.131242,"verdict":"The Soho Noble Rot, in the old Gay Hussar \u2014 and the one you cannot drop into for a glass."},{"name":"National Gallery","slug":"national-gallery","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/national-gallery/","in":1,"lat":51.508889,"lng":-0.128752,"verdict":"Van Gogh's Sunflowers, Leonardo, Turner and Van Eyck, along the north side of Trafalgar Square. 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Free and never closed.","thumb":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb","img":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Admiralty Arch","slug":"admiralty-arch","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/admiralty-arch/","lat":51.506738,"lng":-0.128576,"verdict":"The gateway at the Trafalgar Square end of the processional route, built by Edward VII in memory of his mother.","thumb":"/img/admiralty-arch-480.jpg?v=5c965b9a","img":"/img/admiralty-arch.jpg","w":1024,"h":501},{"name":"Charles I at Charing Cross","slug":"charles-i-at-charing-cross","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/charles-i-at-charing-cross/","lat":51.507334,"lng":-0.127655,"verdict":"Cast while he was still king, buried through the republic, and put back up when the monarchy returned.","thumb":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1","img":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Charles I at Charing 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began.","thumb":"/img/broad-street-pump-and-john-snow-memorial-480.jpg?v=c7b2d901","img":"/img/broad-street-pump-and-john-snow-memorial.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Charles I at Charing Cross","slug":"charles-i-at-charing-cross","cat":"monuments","url":"/monuments/charles-i-at-charing-cross/","lat":51.507334,"lng":-0.127655,"verdict":"The oldest bronze equestrian statue in England, and the point from which every distance to London is measured.","thumb":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1","img":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Edith Cavell Memorial","slug":"edith-cavell-memorial","cat":"monuments","url":"/monuments/edith-cavell-memorial/","lat":51.509375,"lng":-0.127167,"verdict":"Frampton's white memorial to the nurse the Germans shot in 1915, outside the National Portrait Gallery, with her last words cut into 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dealers, unchanged shopfront by shopfront.","thumb":"/img/cecil-court-480.jpg?v=de6d1805","img":"/img/cecil-court.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Dege & Skinner","slug":"dege-skinner","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/dege-skinner/","lat":51.510829,"lng":-0.140115,"verdict":"One of the last family-owned houses on the Row, and the one to go to for a bespoke shirt as well as a suit.","thumb":"/img/dege-skinner-480.jpg?v=2a1d4354","img":"/img/dege-skinner.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Drake's","slug":"drakes","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/drakes/","lat":51.510766,"lng":-0.140051,"verdict":"The modern end of the Row: handmade ties, soft tailoring and shirts, made with the old methods and worn with none of the formality."},{"name":"Gieves & Hawkes","slug":"gieves-hawkes","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/gieves-hawkes/","lat":51.510226,"lng":-0.139521,"verdict":"Number One Savile Row, and the tailor that dressed the Royal Navy for two centuries.","thumb":"/img/gieves-hawkes-480.jpg?v=55f2f517","img":"/img/gieves-hawkes.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"Henry Poole & Co","slug":"henry-poole-co","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/henry-poole-co/","lat":51.511147,"lng":-0.140434,"verdict":"The founding house of Savile Row, and the tailor generally credited with cutting the first dinner jacket.","thumb":"/img/henry-poole-co-480.jpg?v=a3ddf0f6","img":"/img/henry-poole-co.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Huntsman","slug":"huntsman","cat":"classic-british-shops","url":"/classic-british-shops/huntsman/","lat":51.510883,"lng":-0.140166,"verdict":"The one-button coat, a structured shoulder, and a shop front that has been used as a film set more than once.","thumb":"/img/huntsman-480.jpg?v=92236b56","img":"/img/huntsman.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Liberty 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epidemiology began.","thumb":"/img/broad-street-pump-and-john-snow-memorial-480.jpg?v=c7b2d901","img":"/img/broad-street-pump-and-john-snow-memorial.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"John Logie Baird's first television, 22 Frith Street","slug":"john-logie-bairds-first-television-22-frith-street","cat":"science","url":"/science/john-logie-bairds-first-television-22-frith-street/","in":1,"lat":51.513393,"lng":-0.131263,"verdict":"The upstairs room in Soho where television was first shown to the public, in January 1926; Bar Italia is downstairs."},{"name":"Cambridge Circus: le Carr\u00e9's Circus","slug":"cambridge-circus-le-carres-circus","cat":"secrets","url":"/secrets/cambridge-circus-le-carres-circus/","in":1,"lat":51.513254,"lng":-0.129123,"verdict":"The junction that gave John le Carr\u00e9's Secret Service its name: the Circus, headquarters of Smiley's people, in a building that was never 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books.","thumb":"/img/shakespeare-statue-leicester-square-480.jpg?v=15e005dd","img":"/img/shakespeare-statue-leicester-square.jpg","w":575,"h":1024},{"name":"The Coach and Horses","slug":"coach-and-horses-soho","cat":"literary","url":"/literary/coach-and-horses-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.513269,"lng":-0.130144,"verdict":"Jeffrey Bernard's pub on Greek Street, protected for a 1930s fit-out of spittoon troughs and Art Deco lino.","thumb":"/img/coach-and-horses-soho-480.jpg?v=c106faf2","img":"/img/coach-and-horses-soho.jpg","w":1024,"h":681},{"name":"The Dog and Duck","slug":"dog-and-duck-soho","cat":"literary","url":"/literary/dog-and-duck-soho/","in":1,"lat":51.513999,"lng":-0.131962,"verdict":"A very small Soho pub of 1897, thick with glazed tile and advertising mirrors, where Orwell drank.","thumb":"/img/dog-and-duck-soho-480.jpg?v=e23a1477","img":"/img/dog-and-duck-soho.jpg","w":770,"h":1024},{"name":"Canaletto's lodging, Beak 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Escoffier.","thumb":"/img/ho-chi-minh-480.jpg?v=a00afb24","img":"/img/ho-chi-minh.jpg","w":480,"h":640},{"name":"Marx's rooms, Dean Street","slug":"karl-marx","cat":"world","url":"/world/karl-marx/","in":1,"lat":51.514002,"lng":-0.132649,"verdict":"Two rooms over a Soho restaurant where Marx lived in poverty, buried three children and began Capital.","thumb":"/img/karl-marx-480.jpg?v=d4d861f8","img":"/img/karl-marx.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"Mary Seacole's house, Soho Square","slug":"mary-seacole","cat":"world","url":"/world/mary-seacole/","in":1,"lat":51.5158,"lng":-0.132192,"verdict":"Where the nurse of the Crimea wrote her memoir, bankrupt and famous, in the year after the war.","thumb":"/img/mary-seacole-480.jpg?v=dcdae6a3","img":"/img/mary-seacole.jpg","w":1024,"h":890},{"name":"Canada Gallery","slug":"canada-house-gallery","cat":"international-culture","url":"/international-culture/canada-house-gallery/","in":1,"lat":51.5079,"lng":-0.1294,"verdict":"Canada's own gallery on Trafalgar Square, free, inside the High Commission."},{"name":"Korean Cultural Centre UK","slug":"korean-cultural-centre-uk","cat":"international-culture","url":"/international-culture/korean-cultural-centre-uk/","lat":51.507528,"lng":-0.126152,"verdict":"A free gallery of contemporary Korean art a few steps off Trafalgar Square, with a library, Korean classes and a film night."},{"name":"Charing Cross Road","slug":"charing-cross-road","cat":"harry-potter","url":"/harry-potter/charing-cross-road/","lat":51.51236,"lng":-0.12844,"verdict":"The Leaky Cauldron of the books is on Charing Cross Road, between a bookshop and a record shop.","thumb":"/img/charing-cross-road-480.jpg?v=07695816","img":"/img/charing-cross-road.jpg","w":1024,"h":790},{"name":"Harry Potter statue, Leicester Square","slug":"harry-potter-statue-leicester-square","cat":"harry-potter","url":"/harry-potter/harry-potter-statue-leicester-square/","in":1,"lat":51.510653,"lng":-0.130366,"verdict":"Harry on his Nimbus 2000 in bronze, in the square where Philosopher's Stone had its world premiere in 2001.","thumb":"/img/harry-potter-statue-leicester-square-480.jpg?v=6ca82c85","img":"/img/harry-potter-statue-leicester-square.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"House of MinaLima","slug":"house-of-minalima","cat":"harry-potter","url":"/harry-potter/house-of-minalima/","in":1,"lat":51.514459,"lng":-0.134835,"verdict":"The graphic designers of the films' Daily Prophets, Marauder's Maps and sweet wrappers, with their work over four floors.","thumb":"/img/house-of-minalima-480.jpg?v=b4bcabd6","img":"/img/house-of-minalima.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Palace Theatre","slug":"palace-theatre","cat":"harry-potter","url":"/harry-potter/palace-theatre/","in":1,"lat":51.5131,"lng":-0.129788,"verdict":"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, in the theatre it has filled since 2016.","thumb":"/img/palace-theatre-480.jpg?v=272da0fe","img":"/img/palace-theatre.jpg","w":1024,"h":800},{"name":"Piccadilly Circus","slug":"piccadilly-circus","cat":"harry-potter","url":"/harry-potter/piccadilly-circus/","lat":51.509898,"lng":-0.134382,"verdict":"Where Harry, Ron and Hermione land after apparating out of the wedding in Deathly Hallows Part 1.","thumb":"/img/piccadilly-circus-480.jpg?v=69fea33d","img":"/img/piccadilly-circus.jpg","w":1024,"h":768}]},{"slug":"south-bank","zone":"central","first":true,"name":"South Bank","verdict":"A mile of riverside built for a festival in 1951, with concert halls, the National Theatre and a skate spot underneath.","note":"This was Lambeth Marsh: flooded ground, then pleasure gardens, then a hundred years of wharves and factories. 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Free, with the exhibitions ticketed.","thumb":"/img/victoria-and-albert-museum-480.jpg?v=1c1d9203","img":"/img/victoria-and-albert-museum.jpg","w":1024,"h":988},{"name":"Albert Memorial","slug":"albert-memorial","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/albert-memorial/","lat":51.502384,"lng":-0.177674,"verdict":"Victoria's grief in gilt and marble, the most extravagant monument in London, facing the hall named for him.","thumb":"/img/albert-memorial-480.jpg?v=be97b322","img":"/img/albert-memorial.jpg","w":992,"h":1024},{"name":"Brompton Oratory","slug":"brompton-oratory","cat":"sacred","url":"/sacred/brompton-oratory/","in":1,"lat":51.497142,"lng":-0.169643,"verdict":"Italian Baroque in South Kensington, with marble apostles that stood in Siena Cathedral for two centuries.","thumb":"/img/brompton-oratory-480.jpg?v=d9c6f753","img":"/img/brompton-oratory.jpg","w":1024,"h":856},{"name":"Holy Trinity Prince Consort 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Exhibition Road, with a library anyone can borrow from and a programme that runs to film and argument."},{"name":"Institut fran\u00e7ais du Royaume-Uni","slug":"institut-francais-du-royaume-uni","cat":"international-culture","url":"/international-culture/institut-francais-du-royaume-uni/","in":1,"lat":51.494616,"lng":-0.177107,"verdict":"France's London house since 1910: two cinema screens, a lending library, a children's library and a film most nights."},{"name":"Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum","slug":"polish-institute-and-sikorski-museum","cat":"international-culture","url":"/international-culture/polish-institute-and-sikorski-museum/","in":1,"lat":51.501436,"lng":-0.172863,"verdict":"Poland's historical institute in London, founded in 1945 to keep its own records out of the new government's hands.","thumb":"/img/polish-institute-and-sikorski-museum-480.jpg?v=e91c5ff8","img":"/img/polish-institute-and-sikorski-museum.jpg","w":892,"h":1024}]},{"slug":"southwark","zone":"central","first":false,"name":"Southwark & Bankside","verdict":"The Elizabethan pleasure ground: theatres, a rebuilt Globe, a power station full of art, and the bridge to St Paul's.","note":"Bankside was outside the City's control, which is the whole explanation. 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How it became the diamond quarter.","sh":"talk","k":"History","cl":"Talk \u00b7 History","ty":["free","history","talk"],"f":"2026-11-12","t":"2026-11-12"},{"name":"Gresham College: How True Stories Make Us Care","slug":"gresham-college-how-true-stories-make-us-care","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-how-true-stories-make-us-care/","runs":{"from":"2026-10-26","to":"2026-10-26"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"How a reporter makes you care about people whose names you cannot pronounce.","sh":"talk","k":"Art & design","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Art & design","ty":["art","free","talk"],"f":"2026-10-26","t":"2026-10-26"},{"name":"Gresham College: How Urgently Do We Need New Antibiotics?","slug":"gresham-college-how-urgently-do-we-need-new-antibiotics","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-how-urgently-do-we-need-new-antibiotics/","runs":{"from":"2027-02-23","to":"2027-02-23"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"Henry VIII died of an infected leg. How close are we to that world returning?","sh":"talk","k":"History","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Science & nature","ty":["free","history","science","talk"],"f":"2027-02-23","t":"2027-02-23"},{"name":"Gresham College: How Versatile are Therapeutic Antibodies?","slug":"gresham-college-how-versatile-are-therapeutic-antibodies","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-how-versatile-are-therapeutic-antibodies/","runs":{"from":"2027-04-14","to":"2027-04-14"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"The body's most specific weapon, redirected at cancer and at itself.","sh":"talk","k":"Science & nature","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Science & nature","ty":["free","science","talk"],"f":"2027-04-14","t":"2027-04-14"},{"name":"Gresham College: How to Draw a Straight Line? The Mathematics of Linkages","slug":"gresham-college-how-to-draw-a-straight-line-the-mathematics-of-linkages","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-how-to-draw-a-straight-line-the-mathematics-of-linkages/","runs":{"from":"2027-03-09","to":"2027-03-09"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"How do you make a machine draw a perfectly straight line using only bars and pivots?","sh":"talk","k":"Science & nature","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Science & nature","ty":["free","science","talk"],"f":"2027-03-09","t":"2027-03-09"},{"name":"Gresham College: How to See the World As a Child Sees It","slug":"gresham-college-how-to-see-the-world-as-a-child-sees-it","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-how-to-see-the-world-as-a-child-sees-it/","runs":{"from":"2026-12-09","to":"2026-12-09"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"Artworks made with children, designed to let adults see what they see.","sh":"talk","k":"Art & design","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Art & design","ty":["art","free","talk"],"f":"2026-12-09","t":"2026-12-09"},{"name":"Gresham College: Is the HIV Pandemic Over?","slug":"gresham-college-is-the-hiv-pandemic-over","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-is-the-hiv-pandemic-over/","runs":{"from":"2026-09-16","to":"2026-09-16"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"Where the treatment of HIV has got to, and what still stands between that and the end of the epidemic.","sh":"talk","k":"Science & nature","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Science & nature","ty":["free","science","talk"],"f":"2026-09-16","t":"2026-09-16"},{"name":"Gresham College: Journalism as a Public Good","slug":"gresham-college-journalism-as-a-public-good","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-journalism-as-a-public-good/","runs":{"from":"2027-02-16","to":"2027-02-16"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"The business model for news is dying and the information is not getting better. What replaces it?","sh":"talk","k":"Art & design","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Art & design","ty":["art","free","talk"],"f":"2027-02-16","t":"2027-02-16"},{"name":"Gresham College: Language Revitalisation and the (In)Visibility of Indigenous Languages","slug":"gresham-college-language-revitalisation-and-the-in-visibility-of-indigenous-languages","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-language-revitalisation-and-the-in-visibility-of-indigenous-languages/","runs":{"from":"2027-02-18","to":"2027-02-18"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"Britain's indigenous languages are not on an equal footing, and were never meant to be.","sh":"talk","k":"History","cl":"Talk \u00b7 History","ty":["books","free","history","talk"],"f":"2027-02-18","t":"2027-02-18"},{"name":"Gresham College: Language and Reconciliation: The Mapping of Ireland and Brian Friel's Drama Translations","slug":"gresham-college-language-and-reconciliation-the-mapping-of-ireland-and-brian-friels-drama-translations","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-language-and-reconciliation-the-mapping-of-ireland-and-brian-friels-drama-translations/","runs":{"from":"2027-05-20","to":"2027-05-20"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"Brian Friel's Translations, the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, and what happens when a country is renamed.","sh":"talk","k":"History","cl":"Talk \u00b7 Art & design","ty":["art","books","free","history","talk"],"f":"2027-05-20","t":"2027-05-20"},{"name":"Gresham College: Life, Death and Bubbles: The Story of Earth\u2019s Nitrogen","slug":"gresham-college-life-death-and-bubbles-the-story-of-earths-nitrogen","cat":"whats-on","url":"/whats-on/gresham-college-life-death-and-bubbles-the-story-of-earths-nitrogen/","runs":{"from":"2026-11-19","to":"2026-11-19"},"in":1,"lat":51.5177,"lng":-0.1105,"verdict":"In 1898 a scientist warned the world would starve. 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the East End's pubs."},{"name":"The Famous Square Mile","slug":"the-famous-square-mile","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/the-famous-square-mile/","in":1,"lat":51.510633,"lng":-0.086127,"verdict":"The classic City walk: two thousand years in two hours, guided by a barrister."},{"name":"The Heart of the City","slug":"the-heart-of-the-city","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/the-heart-of-the-city/","in":1,"lat":51.509848,"lng":-0.076699,"verdict":"The Gherkin, the Cheesegrater, Lloyd's, and the money that put them there."},{"name":"The Old Jewish Quarter","slug":"the-old-jewish-quarter","cat":"tours","url":"/tours/the-old-jewish-quarter/","in":1,"lat":51.509848,"lng":-0.076699,"verdict":"The East End the poorest arrivals made, from Tower Hill into Whitechapel."},{"name":"Royal Exchange","slug":"royal-exchange","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/royal-exchange/","in":1,"lat":51.513655,"lng":-0.087196,"verdict":"The third exchange on the site, with a golden grasshopper on the roof and a courtyard you can walk into.","thumb":"/img/own-royal-exchange-480.jpg?v=cd0b3b73","img":"/img/own-royal-exchange.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Smithfield Market","slug":"smithfield-market","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/smithfield-market/","in":1,"lat":51.519338,"lng":-0.10133,"verdict":"The country's biggest wholesale meat market, working from midnight to seven in the morning under two Victorian iron roofs."},{"name":"Twinings","slug":"twinings","cat":"shopping","url":"/shopping/twinings/","lat":51.513267,"lng":-0.112842,"verdict":"The oldest tea shop in London, nine feet wide, on the site Thomas Twining took in 1706.","thumb":"/img/twinings-480.jpg?v=5fb21d4f","img":"/img/twinings.jpg","w":708,"h":1024},{"name":"Inner Temple Garden","slug":"inner-temple-garden","cat":"outdoors","url":"/outdoors/inner-temple-garden/","in":1,"lat":51.511884,"lng":-0.109574,"verdict":"The garden where Shakespeare has the Wars of the Roses begin, with a gardener on the payroll since 1307."},{"name":"Postman's 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120","slug":"the-garden-at-120","cat":"views","url":"/views/the-garden-at-120/","in":1,"lat":51.51226,"lng":-0.080825,"verdict":"A roof garden open to the sky on Fenchurch Street, with no booking and no charge."},{"name":"The Lookout at 8 Bishopsgate","slug":"the-lookout-at-8-bishopsgate","cat":"views","url":"/views/the-lookout-at-8-bishopsgate/","in":1,"lat":51.513809,"lng":-0.083571,"verdict":"A free gallery on the 50th floor, level with the towers rather than above them."},{"name":"The Monument","slug":"the-monument","cat":"views","url":"/views/the-monument/","in":1,"lat":51.510142,"lng":-0.085949,"verdict":"311 steps up a hollow stone column, to the height the City used to be.","thumb":"/img/the-monument-480.jpg?v=ffe790c3","img":"/img/the-monument.jpg","w":1024,"h":638},{"name":"Tower Bridge","slug":"tower-bridge","cat":"views","url":"/views/tower-bridge/","lat":51.505517,"lng":-0.075366,"verdict":"The high walkways between the towers, with a strip of glass floor over the road.","thumb":"/img/own-tower-bridge-480.jpg?v=b557d989","img":"/img/own-tower-bridge.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"% Arabica","slug":"arabica-spitalfields","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/arabica-spitalfields/","lat":51.519435,"lng":-0.077179,"verdict":"A kiosk whose doors shut into the % logo."},{"name":"Alchemy","slug":"alchemy","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/alchemy/","in":1,"lat":51.513413,"lng":-0.102574,"verdict":"The Wimbledon roaster's own bar, with up to five coffees on any given day."},{"name":"Association Coffee","slug":"association-coffee","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/association-coffee/","in":1,"lat":51.513631,"lng":-0.07908,"verdict":"A City brew bar pouring a different roaster most weeks, and staff who want to talk about it."},{"name":"Attendant","slug":"attendant","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/attendant/","in":1,"lat":51.52127,"lng":-0.078922,"verdict":"The Folgate Street room, from the people who put a caf\u00e9 in a Victorian gents."},{"name":"Curators 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Coffee","slug":"ozone-coffee","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/ozone-coffee/","in":1,"lat":51.514262,"lng":-0.102968,"verdict":"Ozone on Ludgate Hill, built for the nine-to-five."},{"name":"Redemption Roasters","slug":"redemption-roasters-broadgate","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/redemption-roasters-broadgate/","in":1,"lat":51.51912,"lng":-0.083923,"verdict":"A Broadgate counter funding a barista academy for prison leavers."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn/","in":1,"lat":51.517687,"lng":-0.088974,"verdict":"Half six on London Wall, and sweetness rather than acidity."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-bank","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-bank/","in":1,"lat":51.513896,"lng":-0.086732,"verdict":"Under the Royal Exchange colonnade, and quicker than the address suggests."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-cannon-street","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-cannon-street/","in":1,"lat":51.510984,"lng":-0.087454,"verdict":"The Cannon Street counter, for the coffee before the train rather than after."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-cheapside","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-cheapside/","in":1,"lat":51.51393,"lng":-0.09395,"verdict":"Cheapside, in sight of St Paul's, and open at the weekend."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-city","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-city/","in":1,"lat":51.512579,"lng":-0.093437,"verdict":"Queen Victoria Street, and the one Rosslyn that opens on a Saturday morning."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-fenchurch-street","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-fenchurch-street/","in":1,"lat":51.51207,"lng":-0.0797,"verdict":"Deep in insurance country, and better than the postcode suggests."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-leadenhall-market","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-leadenhall-market/","in":1,"lat":51.512197,"lng":-0.083334,"verdict":"Under the painted ironwork of Leadenhall Market."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-liverpool-street","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-liverpool-street/","in":1,"lat":51.51735,"lng":-0.083,"verdict":"A minute from the Liverpool Street barriers, open before the commute."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-ludgate-circus","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-ludgate-circus/","in":1,"lat":51.514339,"lng":-0.104696,"verdict":"The western edge of the City, and open on a Saturday."},{"name":"Rosslyn Coffee","slug":"rosslyn-tower-42","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/rosslyn-tower-42/","in":1,"lat":51.515204,"lng":-0.083929,"verdict":"In the foot of Tower 42, which is not where you expect to find it."},{"name":"Store Street Espresso","slug":"store-street-espresso-broadgate","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/store-street-espresso-broadgate/","in":1,"lat":51.518535,"lng":-0.079325,"verdict":"Red Brick espresso, served at Liverpool Street pace."},{"name":"The Wren Coffee","slug":"the-wren-coffee","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/the-wren-coffee/","in":1,"lat":51.512091,"lng":-0.096978,"verdict":"Coffee inside a Christopher Wren church, a minute from St Paul's."},{"name":"Urban Baristas","slug":"urban-baristas-aldgate","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/urban-baristas-aldgate/","in":1,"lat":51.516273,"lng":-0.076776,"verdict":"Australian habits at Aldgate speed."},{"name":"WatchHouse","slug":"watchhouse-bishopsgate","cat":"coffee","url":"/coffee/watchhouse-bishopsgate/","in":1,"lat":51.515436,"lng":-0.079088,"verdict":"City WatchHouse: precise, quick, and shut by Saturday."},{"name":"Aux Merveilleux de Fred Leadenhall","slug":"aux-merveilleux-de-fred-leadenhall","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/aux-merveilleux-de-fred-leadenhall/","in":1,"lat":51.51279,"lng":-0.08356,"verdict":"Cream and meringue under the painted ironwork of Leadenhall Market."},{"name":"Konditor","slug":"konditor-cullum-street","cat":"bakeries","url":"/bakeries/konditor-cullum-street/","in":1,"lat":51.511789,"lng":-0.082132,"verdict":"A City lunch-hour stop that has packed up before the weekend begins."},{"name":"Crosstown Cannon Street","slug":"crosstown-cannon-street","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/crosstown-cannon-street/","in":1,"lat":51.511565,"lng":-0.08904,"verdict":"Sourdough doughnuts opposite Cannon Street station."},{"name":"Darlish Spitalfields","slug":"darlish-spitalfields","cat":"desserts","url":"/desserts/darlish-spitalfields/","in":1,"lat":51.518857,"lng":-0.078896,"verdict":"Persian ice cream and baklava sandwiches, facing Old Spitalfields Market."},{"name":"Longboys Liverpool 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over a Shoreditch basement."},{"name":"SAMBAROOM","slug":"sambaroom","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/sambaroom/","in":1,"lat":51.516146,"lng":-0.081237,"verdict":"Low light and forty seats on the 39th floor of the Heron Tower, with east London lit up outside."},{"name":"Dave's Wine Bar","slug":"daves-wine-bar","cat":"wine","url":"/wine/daves-wine-bar/","in":1,"lat":51.513984,"lng":-0.077821,"verdict":"A City wine bar that serves beef, lamb and venison off the owner's own farm, with a terrace and a room of glass."},{"name":"Uncorked","slug":"uncorked","cat":"wine","url":"/wine/uncorked/","in":1,"lat":51.516645,"lng":-0.08768,"verdict":"A City basement stacked with claret, hidden under Copthall Avenue."},{"name":"HMS Belfast","slug":"hms-belfast","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/hms-belfast/","lat":51.506563,"lng":-0.081311,"verdict":"A Second World War cruiser moored in the river and kept as she was, with nine decks to climb down through. Ticketed, and the ladders between decks are steep.","thumb":"/img/own-hms-belfast-480.jpg?v=439bec86","img":"/img/own-hms-belfast.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Sky Garden","slug":"sky-garden","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/sky-garden/","in":1,"lat":51.51127,"lng":-0.08354,"verdict":"A public garden under a glass dome thirty-five floors up, with the City spread out underneath. Free, but you have to book a slot online and the good ones go within hours of release."},{"name":"St Paul's Cathedral","slug":"st-pauls-cathedral","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/st-pauls-cathedral/","in":1,"lat":51.513785,"lng":-0.098436,"verdict":"Wren's domed cathedral, with 528 steps up inside the dome to a walkway above the rooftops. Ticketed Monday to Saturday; on Sunday there is no sightseeing and the services are free to attend.","thumb":"/img/st-pauls-wedding-1981-480.jpg?v=09bb1dd5","img":"/img/st-pauls-wedding-1981.jpg","w":670,"h":1024},{"name":"Tower Bridge","slug":"tower-bridge","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/tower-bridge/","lat":51.505517,"lng":-0.075366,"verdict":"The bridge with two towers that most people mean when they say London Bridge. Free to walk across; the ticket buys the high walkways, their glass floor and the Victorian engine room.","thumb":"/img/own-tower-bridge-480.jpg?v=b557d989","img":"/img/own-tower-bridge.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Tower of London","slug":"tower-of-london","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/tower-of-london/","in":1,"lat":51.508133,"lng":-0.076286,"verdict":"A real Norman castle, nine hundred years old, with the Crown Jewels kept inside it. Ticketed with a timed slot, and the jewels draw the longest queue in the place, so go to them first.","thumb":"/img/tower-of-london-480.jpg?v=f02693b3","img":"/img/tower-of-london.jpg","w":1024,"h":643},{"name":"College of Arms","slug":"college-of-arms","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/college-of-arms/","in":1,"lat":51.512175,"lng":-0.098744,"verdict":"Where the Crown's heralds work, and where a coat of arms is still granted in the sovereign's name.","thumb":"/img/own-college-of-arms-2-480.jpg?v=27e797de","img":"/img/own-college-of-arms-2.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"St Paul's Cathedral","slug":"st-pauls-cathedral","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/st-pauls-cathedral/","in":1,"lat":51.513785,"lng":-0.098436,"verdict":"Charles and Diana married here in 1981, watched by 750 million people on television, and the Queen came here for a service at each of her jubilees.","thumb":"/img/st-pauls-wedding-1981-480.jpg?v=09bb1dd5","img":"/img/st-pauls-wedding-1981.jpg","w":670,"h":1024},{"name":"Tower of 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Spy Bar","slug":"the-spy-bar","cat":"cocktails","url":"/cocktails/the-spy-bar/","in":1,"lat":51.505312,"lng":-0.126149,"verdict":"Cocktails under the Old War Office, where photography is forbidden.","thumb":"/img/own-the-owo-480.jpg?v=469ce189","img":"/img/own-the-owo.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Buckingham Palace","slug":"buckingham-palace","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/buckingham-palace/","in":1,"lat":51.500834,"lng":-0.142658,"verdict":"The King's official home, and the balcony the royal family appears on. The gates and the guard are free all year; the rooms inside open for about ten weeks each summer, on a booked ticket.","thumb":"/img/buckingham-palace-480.jpg?v=723d676a","img":"/img/buckingham-palace.jpg","w":1024,"h":670},{"name":"Changing the Guard","slug":"changing-the-guard","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/changing-the-guard/","in":1,"lat":51.500835,"lng":-0.143005,"verdict":"Soldiers in red coats and bearskin hats handing the palace over to the next watch, with a band playing. Free, no ticket, and you need a place at the railings well before 11:00.","thumb":"/img/changing-the-guard-480.jpg?v=783efd5d","img":"/img/changing-the-guard.jpg","w":1024,"h":613},{"name":"Churchill War Rooms","slug":"churchill-war-rooms","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/churchill-war-rooms/","in":1,"lat":51.502209,"lng":-0.129251,"verdict":"The underground rooms Britain was run from during the Second World War, locked in 1945 and left as they stood. Ticketed, and worth booking: the queue forms on the pavement outside.","thumb":"/img/churchill-war-rooms-480.jpg?v=c73a1678","img":"/img/churchill-war-rooms.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Houses of Parliament & Big Ben","slug":"houses-of-parliament","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/houses-of-parliament/","in":1,"lat":51.499387,"lng":-0.124566,"verdict":"The building in every photograph of London, with the clock tower everyone calls Big Ben at one end. Free to look at from the square; going inside means a tour booked ahead.","thumb":"/img/houses-of-parliament-480.jpg?v=88dbd74f","img":"/img/houses-of-parliament.jpg","w":1024,"h":576},{"name":"Tate Britain","slug":"tate-britain","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/tate-britain/","in":1,"lat":51.491142,"lng":-0.127585,"verdict":"Five hundred years of British art, and everything Turner left the nation. Free, with only the exhibitions ticketed.","thumb":"/img/tate-britain-480.jpg?v=420f8b87","img":"/img/tate-britain.jpg","w":1024,"h":575},{"name":"Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column","slug":"nelsons-column","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/nelsons-column/","lat":51.507759,"lng":-0.12793,"verdict":"The square London gathers in, with Nelson on a column above it, four bronze lions to climb on and fountains between them. Free and never closed.","thumb":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb","img":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Westminster Abbey","slug":"westminster-abbey","cat":"see-first","url":"/see-first/westminster-abbey/","in":1,"lat":51.499401,"lng":-0.127391,"verdict":"The church every English coronation has been held in since 1066, and the burial place of kings, Newton and Darwin. Ticketed, Monday to Saturday; on Sunday it goes back to being a church.","thumb":"/img/own-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=b58d218d","img":"/img/own-westminster-abbey.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"Admiralty Arch","slug":"admiralty-arch","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/admiralty-arch/","in":1,"lat":51.506738,"lng":-0.128576,"verdict":"The gateway at the Trafalgar Square end of the processional route, built by Edward VII in memory of his mother.","thumb":"/img/admiralty-arch-480.jpg?v=5c965b9a","img":"/img/admiralty-arch.jpg","w":1024,"h":501},{"name":"Buckingham Palace","slug":"buckingham-palace","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/buckingham-palace/","in":1,"lat":51.500834,"lng":-0.142658,"verdict":"The balcony, the flag, the gates: the building where the century's royal story was staged for the cameras.","thumb":"/img/buckingham-palace-480.jpg?v=723d676a","img":"/img/buckingham-palace.jpg","w":1024,"h":670},{"name":"Changing the Guard","slug":"changing-the-guard","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/changing-the-guard/","in":1,"lat":51.500835,"lng":-0.143005,"verdict":"The bearskins and the band on the palace forecourt, three mornings a week, for the price of standing at the railings.","thumb":"/img/changing-the-guard-480.jpg?v=783efd5d","img":"/img/changing-the-guard.jpg","w":1024,"h":613},{"name":"Charles I at Charing Cross","slug":"charles-i-at-charing-cross","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/charles-i-at-charing-cross/","in":1,"lat":51.507334,"lng":-0.127655,"verdict":"Cast while he was still king, buried through the republic, and put back up when the monarchy returned.","thumb":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1","img":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Charles I bust, St Margaret's","slug":"charles-i-bust-st-margarets","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/charles-i-bust-st-margarets/","in":1,"lat":51.499894,"lng":-0.126723,"verdict":"The martyr king in lead on a church wall, facing the man who signed his death warrant.","thumb":"/img/own-charles-i-bust-st-margarets-480.jpg?v=e75c649e","img":"/img/own-charles-i-bust-st-margarets.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"George VI and Queen Elizabeth memorial","slug":"george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-memorial","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-memorial/","lat":51.505217,"lng":-0.133807,"verdict":"The Queen's parents together above the Mall: the King of 1955 and the Queen Mother added beside him in 2009, with reliefs of the war years.","thumb":"/img/george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-memorial-480.jpg?v=2063b0b1","img":"/img/george-vi-and-queen-elizabeth-memorial.jpg","w":1024,"h":683},{"name":"Guards Museum","slug":"guards-museum","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/guards-museum/","in":1,"lat":51.500048,"lng":-0.136125,"verdict":"The story of the five regiments of Foot Guards, in the barracks the palace guard marches out of.","thumb":"/img/guards-museum-480.jpg?v=7a070871","img":"/img/guards-museum.jpg","w":640,"h":480},{"name":"Horse Guards","slug":"horse-guards","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/horse-guards/","in":1,"lat":51.504779,"lng":-0.127044,"verdict":"The mounted sentries in the Whitehall arch, the changing of the Life Guard, and the parade ground where Trooping the Colour is held.","thumb":"/img/horse-guards-480.jpg?v=f14ec0ae","img":"/img/horse-guards.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Household Cavalry Museum","slug":"household-cavalry-museum","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/household-cavalry-museum/","in":1,"lat":51.50501,"lng":-0.127247,"verdict":"A glass wall into the working stables of the mounted regiment that rides at every state occasion.","thumb":"/img/household-cavalry-museum-480.jpg?v=6bd1462b","img":"/img/household-cavalry-museum.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Houses of Parliament & Big 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outside Parliament.","thumb":"/img/own-oliver-cromwell-statue-480.jpg?v=cc27dca0","img":"/img/own-oliver-cromwell-statue.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph","slug":"remembrance-sunday-at-the-cenotaph","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/remembrance-sunday-at-the-cenotaph/","in":1,"lat":51.502679,"lng":-0.126091,"verdict":"Two minutes' silence on Whitehall at eleven, the King's wreath, and the veterans' march past.","thumb":"/img/remembrance-sunday-at-the-cenotaph-480.jpg?v=4217b83b","img":"/img/remembrance-sunday-at-the-cenotaph.jpg","w":1024,"h":638},{"name":"Royal Mews","slug":"royal-mews","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/royal-mews/","in":1,"lat":51.498919,"lng":-0.14425,"verdict":"The Gold State Coach of two coronations, the Glass Coach that took Diana to St Paul's, and the horses that pull them.","thumb":"/img/royal-mews-480.jpg?v=7f438ebf","img":"/img/royal-mews.jpg","w":771,"h":1024},{"name":"St James's Park and Green 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the balcony and the flypast.","thumb":"/img/trooping-the-colour-480.jpg?v=d2283a1a","img":"/img/trooping-the-colour.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Victoria Memorial","slug":"victoria-memorial","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/victoria-memorial/","in":1,"lat":51.50184,"lng":-0.140587,"verdict":"The gilded Victory over the roundabout in front of the palace, and the steps everybody stands on for the balcony.","thumb":"/img/victoria-memorial-480.jpg?v=6ff38e58","img":"/img/victoria-memorial.jpg","w":685,"h":1024},{"name":"Wellington Arch","slug":"wellington-arch","cat":"royal","url":"/royal/wellington-arch/","in":1,"lat":51.502536,"lng":-0.150818,"verdict":"The arch at Hyde Park Corner where the Queen's coffin left the gun carriage for the hearse in September 2022, and the walk to Windsor began.","thumb":"/img/wellington-arch-480.jpg?v=3fc925e4","img":"/img/wellington-arch.jpg","w":1024,"h":669},{"name":"Westminster 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townhouse rebuilt four times into the face of British monarchy.","thumb":"/img/buckingham-palace-480.jpg?v=723d676a","img":"/img/buckingham-palace.jpg","w":1024,"h":670},{"name":"Charles I at Charing Cross","slug":"charles-i-at-charing-cross","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/charles-i-at-charing-cross/","in":1,"lat":51.507334,"lng":-0.127655,"verdict":"The king Parliament executed, put back on his horse and pointed at the place where it happened.","thumb":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross-480.jpg?v=db81f3c1","img":"/img/charles-i-at-charing-cross.jpg","w":682,"h":1024},{"name":"Charles I bust, St Margaret's","slug":"charles-i-bust-st-margarets","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/charles-i-bust-st-margarets/","in":1,"lat":51.499894,"lng":-0.126723,"verdict":"A lead head of the beheaded king on a church wall, put there in 1956 to stare across the road at Cromwell.","thumb":"/img/own-charles-i-bust-st-margarets-480.jpg?v=e75c649e","img":"/img/own-charles-i-bust-st-margarets.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Churchill War Rooms","slug":"churchill-war-rooms","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/churchill-war-rooms/","in":1,"lat":51.502209,"lng":-0.129251,"verdict":"The basement a world war was run from, left as its staff walked out of it.","thumb":"/img/churchill-war-rooms-480.jpg?v=c73a1678","img":"/img/churchill-war-rooms.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Foreign Office & the former India Office","slug":"foreign-office-the-former-india-office","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/foreign-office-the-former-india-office/","in":1,"lat":51.502761,"lng":-0.127847,"verdict":"One government building held British diplomacy and the administration of India, side by side."},{"name":"Horse Guards","slug":"horse-guards","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/horse-guards/","in":1,"lat":51.504779,"lng":-0.127044,"verdict":"A street of ministries standing on the ruins of the largest palace in Europe.","thumb":"/img/horse-guards-480.jpg?v=f14ec0ae","img":"/img/horse-guards.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Houses of Parliament & Big Ben","slug":"houses-of-parliament","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/houses-of-parliament/","in":1,"lat":51.499387,"lng":-0.124566,"verdict":"A Victorian palace built to make a modern Parliament look ancient.","thumb":"/img/houses-of-parliament-480.jpg?v=88dbd74f","img":"/img/houses-of-parliament.jpg","w":1024,"h":576},{"name":"Jewel Tower","slug":"jewel-tower","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/jewel-tower/","in":1,"lat":51.49846,"lng":-0.1264,"verdict":"Edward III's strongroom, and later the place Parliament kept its own records.","thumb":"/img/jewel-tower-480.jpg?v=136b988f","img":"/img/jewel-tower.jpg","w":806,"h":1024},{"name":"Oliver Cromwell statue","slug":"oliver-cromwell-statue","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/oliver-cromwell-statue/","in":1,"lat":51.499848,"lng":-0.125824,"verdict":"The man who abolished the monarchy, outside Parliament with a sword and a Bible, paid for in secret because the Commons would not vote for him.","thumb":"/img/own-oliver-cromwell-statue-480.jpg?v=cc27dca0","img":"/img/own-oliver-cromwell-statue.jpg","w":1024,"h":682},{"name":"Pankhurst Memorial","slug":"pankhurst-memorial","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/pankhurst-memorial/","in":1,"lat":51.497777,"lng":-0.125309,"verdict":"The militant suffragette leader, commemorated in a garden beside the Parliament she besieged.","thumb":"/img/pankhurst-memorial-480.jpg?v=35eeb831","img":"/img/pankhurst-memorial.jpg","w":1024,"h":683},{"name":"Parliament Square statues","slug":"parliament-square-statues","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/parliament-square-statues/","in":1,"lat":51.500626,"lng":-0.126826,"verdict":"Legislature, court, government and abbey on four sides, and a running argument on the 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empty tomb built for one parade, and kept because the country would not give it up.","thumb":"/img/the-cenotaph-480.jpg?v=f5644dec","img":"/img/the-cenotaph.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"The OWO and the Spy Bar","slug":"the-owo-and-the-spy-bar","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/the-owo-and-the-spy-bar/","in":1,"lat":51.50526,"lng":-0.12482,"verdict":"A thousand rooms of imperial military bureaucracy, now a hotel anyone can walk into.","thumb":"/img/own-the-owo-480.jpg?v=469ce189","img":"/img/own-the-owo.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Trafalgar Square & Nelson's Column","slug":"nelsons-column","cat":"politics","url":"/politics/nelsons-column/","lat":51.507759,"lng":-0.12793,"verdict":"Built to celebrate a naval victory; used ever since by crowds arguing with the government behind it.","thumb":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2-480.jpg?v=b27c88fb","img":"/img/own-nelsons-column-2.jpg","w":1024,"h":768},{"name":"Westminster 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terrace.","thumb":"/img/downing-street-number-10-480.jpg?v=3a2fa311","img":"/img/downing-street-number-10.jpg","w":1024,"h":740},{"name":"St James the Less","slug":"st-james-the-less","cat":"sacred","url":"/sacred/st-james-the-less/","lat":51.490758,"lng":-0.135247,"verdict":"G. E. Street's red-brick church of 1861, with its tower standing apart from it and a Watts fresco over the chancel arch."},{"name":"Westminster Abbey","slug":"westminster-abbey","cat":"sacred","url":"/sacred/westminster-abbey/","in":1,"lat":51.499401,"lng":-0.127391,"verdict":"Where every English coronation since 1066 has happened, and where the kings, the poets and the scientists are buried.","thumb":"/img/own-westminster-abbey-480.jpg?v=b58d218d","img":"/img/own-westminster-abbey.jpg","w":768,"h":1024},{"name":"Westminster Cathedral","slug":"westminster-cathedral","cat":"sacred","url":"/sacred/westminster-cathedral/","in":1,"lat":51.49582,"lng":-0.139519,"verdict":"England's Catholic cathedral, in striped brick and Byzantine domes, with a lift up the campanile.","thumb":"/img/westminster-cathedral-480.jpg?v=0cfc1413","img":"/img/westminster-cathedral.jpg","w":889,"h":1024},{"name":"Queen Anne's 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Springs found here in the 1640s were held to be medicinal, twelve wells were opened, and John Evelyn rode out in 1675 to see waters he wrote were much frequented in summer. George III came later. The wells lie under Sydenham Wells Park now and still run, and they are the reason a village on a hill in Kent became a place Londoners travelled to at all.\n\nWhat came next was larger. Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851, was taken down and put up again on the hill above here in a bigger form, and Queen Victoria opened it in June 1854 in front of forty thousand people. Two railways were run up to it and the streets below filled with villas: Sydenham became a suburb because of a building. On the night of 30 November 1936 it burned, and the glow was seen from eight counties. None of it was rebuilt.\n\nWhat survives is stranger than a ruin would have been. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins's concrete dinosaurs of 1854 still stand among the trees in the park, wrong in almost every anatomical particular and protected for it. 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