Fire breaks out in Cock Lane

Emergency services were called after a fire broke out at a block of flats in Cock Lane last Thursday. Two fire engines and ten fire fighters from Dowgate and Clerkenwell stations attended the blaze at... 

Bow Bells House sold

Bow Bells House on the City of London’s Cheapside has been sold for over £100million, according to a report by Bloomberg. The 165,000 sq ft building was designed by Architects David Walker and HOK... 

City’s new boutique hotel

A new boutique hotel has opened up in the City of London. Hotel Indigo Tower Hill is the latest boutique hotel in the Hotel Indigo hotel brand from the InterContinental Hotel Group. The new hotel is at... 

Police issue jewellery thief suspect sketch

Police have issued this sketch of a man wanted in connection with a jellewery heist on February 3rd. Jewels worth nearly £1million were stolen at knifepoint from Haynes Jewellers, Castle Court, St Michael’s... 

RIP Peter Moore - Town Crier

Avid readers may remember that I met Peter Moore at the St George’s Day event in Leadenhall Market last year so I was saddened to learn of his death last month in the news. For those that knew him,... 

The City in Photos: Churches

Even though it’s centuries later, the City of London is still shaped by the churches built after the Great Fire of London by Christopher Wren and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor. Fifty churches were...