Your weekly Londonist roundup, featuring Londony news and features. We feel a challenge coming on... Image: TfL Next stop: a hearty lunch for as little at £4! The activist visited Bloomsbury in 1961. The etymology of the London Borough of Southwark. Messages from long ago lurking beneath the capital. (Over on Londonist: Time Machine) New exhibitions, a flower festival, and a chance to clown around in church. Mass Studios has designed this year's offering. Image: © Mass Studies Courtesy: Serpentine. Find out what the future of money will be. Celebrating 80 years of the hit radio programme. All free. No membership required. Bread riots, carriage crashes, and tussling with bears. You can even buy the artworks. Amelia Lancaster has been photographing it for over 20 years. It would've been 175 years old this year... if it hadn't been reduced to rubble. Image: Ben Brooksbank via creative commons Whitgift Centre pop-up is utterly delightful. Our favourite pancake spots, any day of the year. Image: Stack & Still Not all of them are still with us. Family-friendly school holiday activities for all budgets. |