London: Notable neighborhoods
Sometimes an entire neighborhood is a sight in and of itself
Sometimes an entire neighborhood is a sight in and of itself
Spend a day in Greenwich, a Thameside village on London's eastern outskirts by which the world sets it clocks, with a rich maritime history, stellar little museums, and the Prime Meridian
A bustling plaza of buskers, tourists, theatre-goers, and pub crawlers at the heart of London's West End
London's old Bohemian neighborhood is firmly in the tourist and nightlife zone now, but still packed with great cheap eateries
Public payphones are disappearing everywhere in the mobile era, and of the some 47,000 phone kiosks remaining on British streets, fewer than 11,000 are that iconic, classic red phone box.
The two most popular variations of this British classic were designed in the 1920s and 30s by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott—same bloke who did the Bankside power station that now houses the Tate Modern. Its design and domed top were supposedly inspired by Sir John Soane's tomb in the yard at St Pancras Old Church.
More on phone kiosks (and those blue, Doctor Who police boxes): The-telephone-box.co.uk