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A brief look inside St Mary’s Cable Street

There's a rather fine looking church in East London that I have passed on many an occasion with doors locked, but last week, the doors were open, so inside I went.

London’s Alleys: Abel’s Buildings, E1

This is an unmarked alley that runs under the DLR and railway tracks into Fenchurch Street and somehow survives as a narrow smelly dank alley way. So obviously, it's marvelous.

The memorial to a failed North-East Passage

As motorists journey through the Rotherhithe tunnel, little do they know that there's a memorial to another greater journey above their heads.