Colosseum Club Casino is a large casino close to the major road and rail interchange at Vauxhall Cross. Situated in an interesting tinted glass tower, the casino offers a wide range of gaming facilities for the more discerning gambler....

The Gasworks Art Gallery is located in the heart of Vauxhall, a busy riverside transport interchange in South London. The gallery is housed on the site of what was once a gasworks, and has been cleverly converted into a...

The Mi6 building is one of the most iconic modern landmarks in the capital. Featured in countless James Bond films the building is a feat of interesting and challenging architecture on the banks of the River Thames. The...

New Covent Garden Market is known as ‘The Larder of London’. With over 250 stalls employing 2,500 people the market is by far the largest of it’s type in the United Kingdom. The facility stocks a massive range...

St. Anselm's is a fine example of a good old fashioned city church. Built with hard Victorian architectural principles the magnificent building has been aged and weathered by the heavy traffic that has passed it for decades. The...

This arcade of shops is far too exclusive and exciting to be called a ‘shopping centre’ in the traditional sense. Housed in the magnificent old ‘Barkers’ department store building on Kensington High Street the arcade has a great selection...

The Italian fountains are some of the most beautiful monumental structures in any of the London parks. They don’t tower above the park like the nearby Marble Arch or Albert Memorial, but the beautiful fountains attract thousands of visitors...

Kennington Oval is the original oval in Kennington that which the famous old cricket ground nearby was name after. This oval stands at the centre of a major road intersection and has for centuries been one of the defining...

Radclyffe Hall was a well-known and controversial writer throughout her life in living in Kensington. ‘The Well of Loneliness’, her best-known work was banned shortly after its publication because it was thought that the subject matter about a relationship...

Henry Newbolt was born in Staffordshire in 1862 and after being educated at Oxford University moved to London to begin a career as a lawyer and barrister. Although a good lawman he found his calling with the pen, becoming...

The present building that stands at the junction between High Street Kensington and Kensington Church Street was designed in the 19th Century by legendary architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and was constructed in 1873. There has been a place...

St George’s is a small but beautiful church at the top of a hill overlooking the residential streets of Kensington. The church has been beautifully crafted from the finest stone and no expense has been spared on the charming...

Edward Jenner is one of British science’s most famous sons and this is why he has been immortalised I this statue on the edge of Kensington Gardens. Jenner was the man to first successfully create the vaccination for smallpox,...

The Long Water is as its name suggests, a long thin body of water that flows through Kensington Gardens into Hyde Park, where it becomes known as the Serpentine. The lake is one of the most visited central features...

Born in Liverpool the son of a moderately successful artist, Walter Crane moved to London to practice art in his early twenties. He became well known because of his unusual style, but also because of the political messages he...