The Hope & Anchor Islington - No Stranger to the Stranglers The Hope and Anchor Islington is a grade II listed building, currently owned by Greene King and still operated as a pub with great food and live music. Before this, however, and especially in the 1970s, it...

Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Album Cover Location The iconic photograph for David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album cover was shot on Heddon Street in London. The photo shoot took place during January of 1972 and the photographer was Brian Ward. The sign "K West" was the trade...

Fairport Convention

Somewhere Over The Rainbow - There's A Church! - A Sad Farewell To The Rainbow Theatre. After having first been used as a cinema, which was, after all, what it was originally designed and built for, the building that many a concert goer from the 70s attended in order...

Is that a flying pig above Battersea Power station? Yes - but not a real one, obviously....

The Mildmay Tavern - Simply A Mod's Pub Or Was It More Than That - Enter The Honeycombs Described as a "Mods pub" at one stage of its long history, and one which staged concerts by many bands, most of which were never to become famous or well known, the Mildmay...

Eel Pie Island is a small island in the Thames, approximately 8 acres in size, and is the home to many artists, scuptors and the like. There are also a number of private houses on the island and a few businesses are based there. Not that interesting really, or is it?...