At the north end of London Bridge is an imposing building, looking straight down the bridge and often known as “The Gateway to the City”. Every morning cycling into work

In the west entrance to the One New Change shopping arcade, with spectacular views across St Paul’s Cathedral, is this 12 metre high old rusty nail – sticking out of

Yesterday I went to the City of London Police open day at their HQ in Wood Street, and look who I met – the real life Line of Duty AC

What links this extraordinary place photographed below and the City of London? Benches around the Gherkin, read on! Around the piazza surrounding the Gherkin in St Mary Axe are 20

While I’m up in Scotland supporting Mrs Spy in her Edinburgh show, here’s an amazing set of ceramic artworks hidden away in a corridor in the Barbican. Originally commissioned in

You will not believe how happy I was this morning to see these two top hats (rather badly photographed by me I am afraid). The shop is called Yardsmen, and

After William Caxton started his press in Westminster came Wynkyn de Worde, his student, who set up shop in Fleet Street in the City of London in around 1500. By

This is Salters’ Hall, an ultra Brutalist design by Basil Spence dedicated to an ancient Livery company – dating back to 1394, originally managing the salt industry and associated trades

The City is full of garden spaces, some tiny, others massive (they actually own parts of Hampstead Heath and Burnham Woods, Epping Forest and Highgate Wood). In the City itself

In 1515 the City Livery companies – ancient trade associations responsible for quality and price of goods, training of apprentices and support for members’ dependents – were given an order