Tom Steel

I like reading guides to London, it’s such a huge and varied city you can always find something new about an area you’ve lived or worked in for years.
Today I found a new site thanks to Read/WriteWeb which offers a different apporach to city guides. The IFeel series lets you browse maps of London, New [...]

This morning something strange happened.
On a crowded Northern Line train a seat was left empty. the three men standing over it were all too polite to even acknowledge the seat which was left vacant at Angel and it was still empty when I left at Old Street.
How peculiar.

I read a post by Ham on London Daily Photo called How Now Brown Cow. He writes about the south of Epping Forest and talks of memories which match my own so well I feel as if I could have writen his words.

I often read lists of top ten things to do, books to read, films to see. A London focused list of Top Ten Summer Outings on TheOldWorld made me think that my most reliable favorite outing is walking around the city with my camera and photographing whatever takes my interest.
So here’s my Ten places to [...]

Following that post on HD sunglasses here’s one on some new advertising to hit London’s tube. Last October TFL started trailing some new video projection adverts on the tube on the platforms.
Large projectors were set up at Euston which would project silent videos onto the wall across from where people stand waiting for the tube. [...]

Haagen-Dazs have set up an open air ice ream parlor by Liverpool street tube in Broadgate circle, where the ice rink is during the winter. They’ve laid down some astroturf, put up an airy marque and laid out a few dozen cushions and a few sun loungers.
Considering the decent weather we’re having the place wasn’t [...]

Last night I was shopping for a present for a good friend of mine at work who’s leaving this week. As they commute long stretches of the tube each day I decided what they would most like to receive as a leaving present would be An Illustrated Guide to the Piccadilly Line (and a [...]

I’m a big fan of free things, and living in an expensive city like London you have to make the most of them. Which can be quite tricky when there’s free stuff going on everywhere you look.
The closing weeks of June are a particularly good example of this, there’s the London Festival of Architecture for [...]

Living in and around London all my life it’s easy to take a lot of things for granted. I’m always interested to read other peoples fresh experiences of the city, especially visitors from other countries, as I think it’s good to be reminded of some of the everyday things which you can so easily get [...]

I’m not a big fan of shopping malls, one tends to blend into another and you don’t know if you’re in Brent Cross, Lakeside, Watford, Guildford or Cambridge. The usual suspects are always there, the same clothes shops, cafes, music and video stores line the walkways trying to make their 300 square metres somehow different [...]